Evacuation centre downsizing, still open for wildfire evacuees
KAMLOOPS — The chairs outside the Sandman Centre are being put away, many of them now sitting empty after the majority of Williams Lake residents went home on Thursday.
“It’s quieted down for sure when those evacuees got to go home,” said Kristen Rodrigue from the TNRD emergency operations centre. “However, with the new fire at Monte Lake, that has changed our response as well.”
The TNRD says only 400 evacuees remain from this region, and shelter will still be available inside the Sandman Centre.