Image Credit: Contributed / Karen Simmonds

By James Peters

Whitecroft Wildfire

TNRD evacuates 132 properties near Whitecroft wildfire

Jul 10, 2021 | 7:34 PM

WHITECROFT, B.C. — The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has announced an evacuation in and around the community of Whitecroft.

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The evacuation was announced at 7:00 p.m. Saturday (July 10), and is due to the nearby Embelton Mountain fire.

The order is in effect for 132 properties, as follows:

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• 7305 to 7408 Cahilty Cres;
• 3208 to 3229 Cahilty Pl;
• 7116 to 7200 Cahilty Rd;
• 2893 to 3540 Heffley-Louis Creek Rd;
• 3240 to 3260 McGillivray Creek Rd;
• 3140 Strachan Rd;
• 3220 and 3272 Sun Peaks Rd;
• 6420 to 7046 Upper Louis Creek Rd; and
• any other properties within the boundary noted on the map below
  Image Credit: TNRD

Anyone residing in the properties within the red boundary is ordered to leave immediately.

Evacuees are asked to register with the Emergency Support Services centre at McArthur Island Sport and Event Centre in Kamloops, or online.

If you can stay with friends or family, you are asked to do that. Those who cannot stay with friends and family are asked to report to the Emergency Support Services centre at the Prestige Harbourfront Resort located at 251 Harbourfront Drive NW, Salmon Arm, BC.

Meantime, the TNRD has also put 156 properties in the Heffley Lake area under evacuation alert.

That means those residing in the following properties must be ready to leave on very short notice:

• 6555 to 6596 Fawnhill Rd;
• 2484 to 2496 Fisher Rd;
• 2544 to 2592 Golden Horn Rd;
• 2304 to 2476 Heffley Lake Rd;
• 1840 to 2845 Heffley-Louis Creek Rd;
• 5854 to 6225 Lake Bay Rd;
• 6234 to 6433 Lakeshore Rd;
• 1860 to 1930 Lakeview Dr;
• 6447 to 6593 Lower Heffley Lake Rd;
• 2320 and 2321 Shaw Rd;
• 5980 to 6640 Yates Creek Rd;
• any other properties within the boundary noted on the map below
  Image Credit: TNRD

At the B.C. Wildfire Service’s last measurement, the fire was 50 hectares and burning just west of Cahilty Creek.

Image Credit: Contributed / Karen Simmonds