Tag Archives: Okanagan

Kelowna fire crews responded to a residential fire Monday morning (Aug. 28). Firefighters rushed to the scene o a four-plex in the 1800 block of Pandosy Street around 1:30 a.m. The initial arriving of...

Residents of British Columbia’s Shuswap region forced from their homes by a destructive wildfire just over a week ago will soon learn the fate of their properties. Derek Sutherland, director of ...

The BC Wildfire Service says the West Kelowna fire department is returning to “normal day-to-day operations,” 10 days after a fast-moving wildfire forced thousands to flee and went on to d...

UPDATE: 7:35 p.m. Today, over 600 properties were downgraded from evacuation order to evacuation alert in Lake Country, in parts of West Kelowna, and for Westbank Frist Nation IR#10. There are no long...

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District says 131 homes and other structures have been destroyed by wildfires in the Shuswap region. Information officer Erick Thompson said the damage assessment for the...

The Glenmore Landfill in Kelowna will reopen to public waste management on Monday, Aug. 28, which will be 10 days after it was in flames. The landfill was evacuated on Friday, August 18 as the Clifton...

A campaign has been launched to help people affected by the recent fires in the Central Okanagan. The West Kelowna Professional Firefighter Charitable Society, Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charit...

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...

After a week-long closure, the Trans Canada Highway through the Shuswap has reopened this morning (Aug. 25). OPEN #BCHwy1 – Traffic is now able to get through in both directions between #ChaseBC...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the Okanagan to meet with firefighters, volunteers and officials involved in the area’s wildfire fight. He started the day at the Westbank First Nation, discu...