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The McDougall Creek Fire was a wildfire in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada as part of the 2023 Canadian wildfires. It started near West Kelowna on August 15, 2023, and was discovered at 5:59 pm PDT. [1] The wildfire forced the evacuation of West Kelowna and parts of Kelowna.
Officials in West Kelowna already ordered people to evacuate 2,400 properties and alerted an additional 4,800 properties to be ready to leave. The BC Wildfire Service said the fire stretched over ...
Hundreds of kilometers (miles) south of Yellowknife, homes were burning in West Kelowna, British Columbia, a city of about 38,000, after a wildfire grew “exponentially worse” than expected ...
The 2024 California wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of California. As of December 13, 2024 [update] , a total of 7,934 wildfires have burned a cumulative 1,049,452 acres (424,698 ha).
The Rose Valley Fire started at around 7:30 pm, July 18, 2009, behind the Rose Valley subdivision on the east side of West Kelowna. The fire burned aggressively overnight and was estimated at 150 hectares by 9:00 pm, July 19. Over 8,000 people were evacuated but no structures were lost or damaged.
See wildfire map: California's Line Fire grows to 26,000 acres, more evacuations underway Airport Fire continues to burn Timelapse footage shows wildfire destroying a California weather-monitoring ...
The government of British Columbia said it would largely lift travel restrictions to the province's wildfire-hit interior on Tuesday, as rain and cooler weather helped hold back blazes across ...
Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has now grown to be the biggest in the state this year. The largest of several wildfires in the state is the ...