{"id":10266,"date":"2015-07-21T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2015-07-21T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:20:19","slug":"b-c-wildfire-forces-evacuation-near-shelter-cove-area-of-west-kelowna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10266","title":{"rendered":"B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Darkness preventing helicopter or air tanker support from effectively assisting firefighters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fire crews and officials\u00a0scrambled\u00a0to keep\u00a0residents safe from\u00a0a quickly spreading blaze\u00a0near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home.<\/div>\n

The wildfire was sparked by lightning on Sunday afternoon, and had largely died down before erupting again late Monday. It’s now grown to 30\u00a0hectares in size, fuelled by strong winds and dry conditions, according to fire officials\u00a0in the Central\u00a0Okanagan\u00a0Regional District.<\/p>\n

Dramatic images on social media show it burning down the western slope\u00a0of Okanagan Lake above Westside Road.<\/p>\n

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Fire still spreading.\u00a0Smaller fire on the edge of lake next to house #<\/span>Okanagan<\/span><\/a>#<\/span>BCfire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The BC Wildfire Service says the fire is burning at Rank 4, which is described as a vigorous surface fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The service says\u00a0in a release that an\u00a0evacuation order<\/a>\u00a0has been recommended to the Central Okanagan Regional District for approximately 70 properties in the Shelter Cove area.<\/p>\n

The district has confirmed to CBC News that it is trying to move people out from\u00a0residences and properties along Westside Road near Shelter Cove between La Casa and Lake Okanagan Resort.<\/p>\n

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B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna Darkness preventing helicopter or air tanker support from effectively assisting firefighters Fire crews and officials\u00a0scrambled\u00a0to keep\u00a0residents safe from\u00a0a quickly spreading blaze\u00a0near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home. The wildfire was sparked by lightning on Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94,103,3544,3000,3366,2582,7440,7441,4849],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-news","tag-evacuation","tag-fire","tag-kelowna","tag-okanaga","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}