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(Editor's note: This story concludes The Daily Courier's countdown of the Top Five News Stories for the Central Okanagan in 2023. The other four were: Tiny homes coming for homeless;
Rescue crews from across the country were in the Penticton this week for heavy urban search and rescue training.
Fresh off a real deployment to the B.C. Southern Interior, members of a top Canadian search-and-rescue team are in Penticton this week for training.
“The exercise will simulate a provincial response to an extreme weather event where multiple technical rescues are required,” said the city.
The Vancouver-based disaster response team Canada Task Force 1 has completed 1,506 rapid damage assessments in the wildfire-ravaged West Kelowna and North Shuswap areas, allowing residents to find out if their homes are safe to return to.