Tag Archives: Paramedics/Fire
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
Surrey woman dead after crash near Merritt
MERRITT, B.C. - RCMP are investigating after a woman died on the Okanagan Connector east of Merritt. According to an email from RCMP E-Division spokesperson Sgt. Janelle Shoihet, the crash happened ye...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
B.C Wildfire Service looking at smoke inhalation mitigation for firefighters
MERRITT, B.C. - With the 2019 wildfire season creeping up on the province, the B.C. Wildfire Service is working on protecting its members from damaging smoke. Fighting active wildfires makes smoke inh...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: Contributed / Hugh Daykin
