More wildfire evacuation alerts
Photo: BCWS
Keremeos Creek wildfire from the air.
UPDATE: 11am
Added more evacuation alerts related to the Keremeos Creek wildfire.
A total of 41 properties, most in the Grand Oro Road area in electoral districts G and I, as well as two more properties along Highway 3A, have been added to the alert.
Total properties under evacuation orders: 324 Total properties under evacuation warnings: 479
RDOS Emergency Support Services has registered 157 residents. Fifty-five were accommodated in local hotel rooms and another 10 were accommodated in local homes.
ESS says group accommodation has been established but is not currently in use.
An evacuee reception center is available at Princess Margaret Secondary School at 120 Green Ave in Penticton. This drop-in center will be open today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For a complete list of affected properties and updates on evacuation warnings and orders, click here.
ORIGINAL: 9:40 am
The BC Wildfire Service continues to attack the Keremeos Creek wildfire, which as of Wednesday morning was still estimated at 2,790 hectares.
It’s still out of control. The fire is near Highway 3A at Yellow Lake, so while it was closed Tuesday, crews conducted small, planned fires.
A control line runs along the highway that will limit the growth and allow crews to have safe access and establish containment lines.
Over the next 24 hours, more planned ignitions are being prepared on the eastern flank of the fire.
More than 320 properties in the fire area, including Apex Mountain Resort, remain under evacuation orders and hundreds more are on standby. Find a complete list of orders and alerts here and evacuee information here.
The resources attacking this fire now are:
- 137 firefighters
- 10 helicopters
- Four heavy equipment
- 137 wildland firefighters have been assigned to this fire, working with an additional 115 structural protection personnel from British Columbia fire services for a total of 252 firefighters.
Structure protection will be established where and as needed as crews move forward with planned fires along Highway 3A.
Additional crews are establishing control lines from Green Mountain Road, working west and preparing Cedar Creek Road for potential burn operations.
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