{"id":10288,"date":"2015-07-22T07:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10288"},"modified":"2015-07-22T07:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:03:49","slug":"b-c-fires-more-than-100-new-wildfires-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10288","title":{"rendered":"B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/b-c-fires-more-than-100-new-wildfires-in-24-hours-1.3161607\" target=\"_blank\">B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Lightning, heat and high winds combine to create challenging conditions for firefighters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In just 24 hours, 115 new wildfires have\u00a0flared up across B.C.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0most of them\u00a0in the Kamloops area and the southeast part of the province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lightning was a huge driver of increased fire activity yesterday and that would be from the lightning activity we saw Sunday night,&#8221; said Ryan\u00a0Turcot of the\u00a0B.C. Wildfire Service.<\/p>\n<p>Nine communities are under evacuation alerts or orders, according to the wildfire service.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Winter, also with B.C. Wildfire Service, said\u00a0crews are monitoring erratic winds expected to hit the region later today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[We&#8217;re] making sure we get as many resources as we can today, before the winds pick up, and try to get some containment on those fires,&#8221; said Winter.<\/p>\n<h2>West Kelowna fire still growing<\/h2>\n<p>A fast-moving wildfire on\u00a0Westside Road near West Kelowna&#8217;s\u00a0Shelter Cove area\u00a0has now grown to about 430 hectares, up from 175 hectares earlier today and 30 hectares yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>West Kelowna fire still growing<\/h2>\n<p>A fast-moving wildfire on\u00a0Westside Road near West Kelowna&#8217;s\u00a0Shelter Cove area\u00a0has now grown to about 430 hectares, up from 175 hectares earlier today and 30 hectares yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the growth has been uphill, away from nearby homes, but the fire has remained difficult to contain on a steep slope, with high winds and a lot of dry fuel.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_11_0_1_1437564187657_28\">&#8220;Wind is our number 1 enemy out here,&#8221; fire information officer Dale Bojara said Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours Lightning, heat and high winds combine to create challenging conditions for firefighters In just 24 hours, 115 new wildfires have\u00a0flared up across B.C.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0most of them\u00a0in the Kamloops area and the southeast part of the province. &#8220;Lightning was a huge driver of increased fire activity yesterday [&hellip;]<\/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":[65,7458,94,7461,1144,7460,7457,7459,5499,4849],"class_list":["post-10288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bc","tag-bc-wildfire-service","tag-british-columbia","tag-firefighting","tag-heat","tag-high-winds","tag-kamloops","tag-lightning","tag-the-tyee","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288","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=10288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions\/10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}