Evacuation orders lifting as B.C. wildfire battle tide turns
Afflciting Shuswap and Okanagan regions starting to welcome people home
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Afflciting Shuswap and Okanagan regions starting to welcome people home
The North Okanagan-Shuswap School District says in a message on its website that the year will begin a day late, with a half day of classes on Wednesday for most of its roughly 6,000 students.
People whose homes were destroyed by the wildfire in and around West Kelowna, B.C., are being contacted to schedule escorted bus visits to view the damage.
Wildfire officials say the Bush Creek East wildfire in the Shuswap has been ‘very tricky’ to extinguish, and thousands of properties remain on evacuation order.
People whose homes were destroyed by the wildfire in and around West Kelowna, B.C., are being contacted to schedule escorted bus visits to view the damage.