Local fire fighters and forestry crews were kept busy snuffing out two fires Tuesday.

The first one was reported shortly before 11 a.m. at Reid's Corner and Highway 97 in Kelowna where crews put out a small grass fire. The incident prompted a warning to motorists from the Kelowna Fire Department to extinguish their cigarettes in their vehicle ashtrays instead of throwing them out the window.

The second fire was on the Westside in the Bear Creek Road area where crews dealt with a small forest fire. The fire was primarily fought from the air with tankers.

"The fire was located approximately 500 to 600 meters upslope from several homes in the 1000 block of Westside Road. Due to the quick action of the BCFS crews and helicopter the homes were never seriously threatened," says Westside Assistant Fire Chief, Daren Lee.

He says the cause of the fire would appear to be an abandoned campfire.