B.C. provided an update on its plan to move tent city residents in Victoria into temporary housing in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19. 

The province says about 265 people have been moved to temporary housing, but one homeless advocate says the province housed the most visible, not the most vulnerable.

Police said when they arrived, they found the snake — along with four replica handguns, two machetes, an axe and a club with nails in it.

The city's main venue for hockey games and concerts is set to become a makeshift homeless shelter under the COVID-19 pandemic.

When crews arrived around 6 p.m., they found flames at the centre of the park.

The cache included nine replica guns, ammunition, swords, hatchets, bear spray and a stun baton, according to police. 

Early Wednesday morning a tent near the southwest corner of the park also burst into flames.

Investigators say they were initially called to the park for a domestic dispute, but found no one injured and made no arrests.

'It's clean ... I think by next week, it will be even cleaner. And there isn't this tension anymore,' said a member of the Buddhist temple nearby.

The next steps in the city's approach to an entrenched homeless camp at Oppenheimer Park got a little bit clearer on Friday.