Thousands still waiting to go home in Okanagan

The numbers are starting to go down, but as of Friday morning (Aug. 25), more than 4,000 properties in the Central Okanagan were still on evacuation order de to the wildfires.

The emergency operations centre said that included 2,663 properties in West Kelowna, 655 in Lake Country, 1,114 in the Regional District of Central Okanagan Electoral Area and 50 in Westbank First Nation as of 9 a.m..

There are 13,773 properties in total that remain on evacuation alert.

Visit cordemergency.ca/map to view all existing orders and alerts.