Wildfires

WILDFIRES – Evacuation ordered in Loon Lake; Village of Clinton on alert

July 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new evacuation order and two new evacuation alerts were declared Friday night (July 14, 2017) as the B.C. Interior headed into a weekend of uncertain weather. The [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Calm heads needed in row over wildfire evacuation order

July 13, 2017 // 6 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF AN RCMP officer knocked on your door and told you to evacuate your home due to an approaching wildfire, what would you do? [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Drone video shows near-total destruction of mobile home park

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Boston Flats residents got a look Tuesday at what’s left of their mobile home park. And the sad news was, not much. Almost every mobile home in the park was destroyed [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Ashcroft-Cache Creek evacuees anxious to return home

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

There was no shortage of questions from about 70 wildfire evacuees from the Ashcroft-Cache Creek area tonight (July 8, 2017) at an information meeting. Representatives from [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Offers of assistance, volunteers pour in for evacuees

July 8, 2017 // 3 Comments

Offers of assistance to evacuees are pouring in as wildfires rage throughout the region. Emergency Operations Centre information officer Debbie Sell said today (July 8, 2017) [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Provincial state of emergency declared; 56 new fires

July 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Comet Kohoutek, photographed was 1975 approached. (Image: NASA)

UPDATE: The TNRD has issued an evacuation order for a number of properties in Little Fort as of 10:30 p.m. today, July 7. The order states that “because of the [Continue]