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Two workers injured after fire at Spallumcheen farm
SPALLUMCHEEN, B.C. - Two employees were injured after a fire broke out at a farm on McLeery Road in Spallumcheen this morning.The Armstrong-Spallumcheen Fire Department found a shed on the site in the...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Buse Creek fire east of Kamloops now being held; Richter Creek fire near Osoyoos still out of control
KAMLOOPS - A wildfire that sparked east of Kamloops over the weekend is now under control. B.C. Wildfire Information Officer Hannah Swift says the Buse Creek fire remains at 19 hectares, and a hand gu...
James Peters May 14, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service
Logging company assessing the damage after weekend fire
KAMLOOPS - A fire that destroyed multiple logging trucks and trailers at LeBeau Bros Logging Ltd. will cost the business heavily, but the owner claims it's more of an emotional cost than financial. Cr...
May 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Kamloops celebrates Emergency Preparedness
KAMLOOPS - Last week was Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada, which is a week dedicated to ensuring Canadians are ready in the event an emergency strikes. And on Saturday, emergency service prov...
May 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
New 15-hectare wildfire breaks out just west of Osoyoos as province’s fire danger rating climbs
The BC Wildfire Service has been called to the south Okanagan, where a new wildfire has broken out near Osoyoos.The fire is burning about 12 kilometres west of the lakeside community near Highway 3, a...
May 13, 2019 Image Credit: Global Okanagan / Michael Eso
CN train investigated as potential cause of Kamloops-area wildfire
KAMLOOPS - A 19-hectare wildfire burning east of Kamloops, B.C. may have been caused by a passing CN train.Witnesses tell Global News three areas near the train tracks started smoking about 50 yards a...
May 13, 2019 Buse Creek wildfire, May 13 (Image Credit: Twitter / Rick Niles)
Wildfire Service battling blaze east of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - UPDATED- MONDAY, MAY 13- 4:50 amA wildfire east of the City is still considered out of control, but isn't threatening any structures, at least as of late last night. Wildfire B.C. officials...
May 12, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service
State of emergency declared, evacuations ordered amid central B.C. wildfire
FRASER LAKE, B.C. - An out-of-control wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations.The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako issued a state of em...
May 12, 2019 Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service
KFR takes down mobile home park blaze
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire Rescue crews were able to extinguish a small fire in a mobile home park along Ord Road last night. Platoon Captain Jim Gorman says the blaze started around 8:15 p.m, and KFR w...
May 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Fire on Shuswap Road rips through trucking yard
KAMLOOPS - A pillar of dark smoke rising east of Kamloops was visible from across the city, as a fire tore through the Lebeau Brothers Logging Ltd. on East Shuswap Road yard at around 8:00 pm Friday e...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
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