Fires can not detain Fitz – West Kelowna News

Highway 97 is reduced to a northbound lane near the Gorman Bros. sawmill in West Kelowna, after a vehicle rolled into the ditch.

The SUV white is on the side and the ambulancers paramedics and police are on the scene. he arrived at about 16:15, just before the Glenrosa Overpbad

There is currently no word on injuries or if any other vehicles were involved in the incident.

UPDATE 11:20 AM

The Serious Crimes Unit of the Southeast District resumed the investigation into the murder of 39, a woman in a West Kelowna hotel. 19659003] Staff Sergeant Annie Linteau, Senior Media Relations Officer with the RCMP, told Castanet: "On July 22, 2018, at 7:18 pm, the police visited a hotel located in the block. 3400 Carrington Road to West Kelowna. Upon arrival, the police found a deceased woman.A man was arrested a short distance from the hotel and is in custody. "

The RCMP believes that the man and the woman were known one of the other. the Lower Mainland. Police are continuing their investigation and some businesses in the area have been hit while police continue to search for evidence.

The Serious Crimes Unit of the Southeast District has resumed the investigation and no other information is available at this time.

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UPDATE 11:10 AM

Kelowna RCMP informs Castanet that all incident communications at a West Kelowna hotel Another RCMP division will be dealing with the issue: "Communications on this subject will be handled by our provincial communications team, and I understand they are writing a press release," says Cst. Jesse O & # 39; Donaghey

We will bring you the latest news as soon as we get them.

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ORIGINAL 10:05

Kelowna RCMP is still at the scene of an incident at the West Kelowna West Western Hotel on Monday morning

The details are not clear then We expect more information from the RCMP

But five police cars and an ambulance blocked the entrance to the Best Western Carrington Road Hotel in West Kelowna Sunday night. Moore was on the scene and indicates that the area is still registered

There have been unconfirmed reports indicating that at least one person has been transported to the hospital

We will have more than As soon as they are available.

Alanna Kelly

Learned pilots were tasked with intentionally torching 150 hectares of space between two forest fires at Peachland

. Another fire was declared, but the Mount Eneas and Munro Lake forest fires came together

. Incident Commander Glen Burgess said the space between the two would have burned, but that he could control the burn

. "We use an ignition device called a plastic spherical dispenser, which basically involves dropping round bales, similar to ping-pong balls, filled with a chemical," he said. he says.

A hopper is filled inside the helicopter, which is then filled with bullets and as they roll, they are injected with glycol.

Burgess says according to the amount of glycol that is injected, they can control the time before the "There is no fire when it comes out of the machine, it hits the ground, the chemical reaction is produced and then burst into flames, "explains Burgess

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"All things being equal, they are surprisingly inexpensive," he said.

A fixed-wing tanker was used to place a retarder along the road. the burn zone, which was quite expensive. But Burgess says it's not something that worries them.

"When we take into account human life and property, we do not worry about the cost if we protect this kind of values," he said.

"It will not be a shocking amount," he said.

Due to the diligent work of firefighters, no structure was lost by the fires currently burning.

"There is a lot of fire now but it's the fire we initiated," he said. "We have taken a lot of precautions, we do not take these decisions lightly and hope that there will be less smoke."

Burgess stated that his greatest concern at this stage is an unexpected wind event. 19659003] "We still have a lot of fire there in a variety of places that are not confined and if we had an unexpected wind event that would cause us problems for sure," he said. .

Alanna Kelly

UPDATE: 9:30 pm

A successful planned ignition combined two forest fires and will now be called Mount Eneas [19659003] Estimated size of out-of-control forest fires is 1,516 hectares

Munroe Lake and Mount Eneas were combined in a single fire and were constructed "to remove fuel on steeper slopes", according to BC Wildfire.

Teams can now play on flatter and safer ground.

Ground crews, heavy equipment and air support worked on fire with 112 firefighters

North Beach Road and Callan Road

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UPDATE: 5:30 pm [19659003] A technically challenging task was successfully completed by BC Wildfire Service on Sunday.

Helicopters used a plastic spherical dispenser to drop ping-pong. bullets that burst into flames at impact to connect Mount Eneas and the Munro Lake Forest Fires together.

The incident operations commander for the Okanagan Glen Burgess complex stated that the task had proceeded as well as planned.

Burgess said that Mt. The fire of Eneas burns out of control, but they expect no growth.

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UPDATE: 1:35 pm

A huge and huge smoke plume invaded the Peachland skies after BC Wildfire Service attempted to join two fires into one.

Numerous helicopters were seen circulating the area during a planned fire on Mount Eneas and Munro Lake forest fires

The great smoke between the two demonstrates the goal of joining the 150 hectares between two wildfires

BC Wildfire Service with chemicals that ignite on contact with helicopters to fill both fires.

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UPDATE: 12:30 pm

BC Wildfire Service stated that they plan to fight the fire today in Peachland

Officer Noelle Kekula said that "ping-pong" bales filled with chemicals would be dropped from a helicopter and ignite at impact

This will likely occur around noon today, but will depend many factors.

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25 hours

The Mount Eneas and Munro Lake forest fires near Peachland will soon become a major fire.

"If residents see a helicopter that drops the fire, do not do it on purpose," says Noelle Kekula, information officer for the Wildfire Service of British Columbia. She says that the area between the two fires is about 150 hectares and that merging the two would make firefighting more effective and safer for firefighters,

The Mount Eneas fire is currently burning at approximately 1500 hectares. to 60 hectares.

The merger of the two forest fires will bring the fire to over 1,500 hectares

"A burn test will determine if the operation will continue."

One s'. expect the fire to be of low to moderate intensity.

Peachland District remains under local emergency as Mount Eneas and Munro Lake forest fires continue to burn.

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UPDATE: 10:40

Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin talks about the Mount Eneas fire burning between Peachland and Summerland.

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ORIGINAL: 10:26

Castanet journalist Alanna Kelly is on stage in Peachland near the Mount Eneas Forest Fire, which continues to burn at approximately 1,374 hectares.

Kelly has an interview with Peachland Mayor Cindy Fortin, who will provide more information on the current state of the district.

It is believed that the fire increased slightly overnight, but that it apparently remained within its limits, according to the Wildfire Service of BC

Castanet will provide more information shortly

Five police cars and an ambulance block the entrance to the Best Western Hotel of Carrington Road in West Kelowna Sunday night.

Castanet reporter at the scene Wayne Moore says that the police recorded the entrance to the Square of the Vintage View Center shopping center, as well as that of Dominos Pizza. He says that they were on the scene for about two hours

Castanet contacted the RCMP, but they say that no updates or information will be available until the Incident is over, which may not be until tomorrow.

More to come because Castanet finds additional information.

UPDATE: 22:30

West Kelowna RCMP says one blue Mitsubishi Lancer An accident with a police cruiser on Saturday, near Peachland, was stolen from Oliver about 45 minutes earlier.

Cpl. Jesse O 'Donaghey said the police had been deployed to support emergency teams at the Mount Eneas fire when they noticed that the stolen Lancer was entering the south end of Peachland around 14 hours.

O 'Donaghey says that after the robbery, several complaints The policeman escaped the police in Penticton and continued his route north on Highway 97.

The police successfully deployed a crampon belt on the Lancer along the highway near Buchanan Road. However, the suspect continued to drive and struck an unmarked police SUV before being chased off the road by another police vehicle. The driver was then stopped without incident.

A 29-year-old man, Oliver, is now detained in Kelowna and could face criminal charges, police said.

Witnesses who have not yet spoken to the West Kelowna RCMP at 250-768-2880

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UPDATE: 4:00 pm

A witness to the collision that closed the Drought Hill earlier Saturday said that a police officer in an RCMP SUV was waiting at the bottom of the car tried to bypbad the police car, but the officer managed to block the car, this [19659003] Another unidentified police vehicle was installed to prevent the driver from escaping and eventually forced the blue car into the ditch.

It is unclear why the police were targeting the blue car, or if someone was injured in the collision.

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UPDATE: 3:25 pm

The Drought Hill incident on Saturday afternoon involved an RCMP SUV, and Castanet received reports that a lawsuit involving the police was taking place. is completed in the accident.

A motorist who was stuck in the reserve said he saw a Mitsubishi Lancer demolished moving away from the scene on a flatbed truck, followed by an RCMP SUV in a separate truck.

The motorist said the traffic had begun to move, and he has since pbaded the scene of the accident.

The cause of the accident has not yet been confirmed.

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ORIGINAL: 15:05

An incident on Highway 97, north of Peachland, paralyzed traffic in southbound lanes on Saturday. afternoon.

A motorist tells Castanet that he is stuck near the junction of the Okanagan Connector since 2:30 pm and that he has seen several police cars pbad by.

Traffic cameras in the area show hundreds of vehicles stopping on Drought Hill, behind Glenrosa Road.

DriveBC reports that an evaluation is underway, and warns of heavy delays.

The nature of the incident is unknown at the moment. The Mount Eneas powder trail closed the road between Summerland and Peachland earlier in the week, and caused heavy delays once the highway opened to alternate traffic to one lane, but there has no closure related to the forest fires on the road today.

Castanet will provide more information as soon as it is available

UPDATE: 9:35 am

The BC Wildfire Service says that there have been no homes affected by any Forest fires across the Okanagan this week, to their knowledge.

Fire crews saw a positive day on the front lines yesterday and during the night, enjoying relatively cooler temperatures and lighter winds during the day. As stronger winds rose at dusk, fanning the flames and fears, the wind did not last all night.

While Noelle Kekula, head of fire information, says that she has heard that a few small outbuildings have been set on fire in some areas, she thinks that no homes are burning. was lost.

The Mount Eneas fire rose to 1,374 hectares, but Kekula said growth was somewhat expected, and none of the growth violated any of their containment lines. The fire did not cross Highway 97 in more than 24 hours. Kekula could not provide a percentage of the confinement that they have on the big fire, but she said they're concentrating on building lines specifically where the fire is threatening the houses.

The Goode's Fire Creek in Okanagan Mountain Park has not increased recently and remains at 400 hectares. The winds blew fire yesterday, far from homes on Lakeshore Road, prompting the regional district to suppress an evacuation alert in the area. Twenty-one firefighters are working to establish fire control lines today.

Kekula says that they also worked hard on the Law Creek fire in the Glenrosa area of ​​West Kelowna, which increased slightly to 10 hectares. Of the 198 houses that were put on alert in the region on Friday morning, only 69 remain on alert, which, according to Kekula, is a sign of the progress they are making.

There are still about 200 firefighters and 18 helicopters working The many fires in the valley, collectively referred to as the "Okanagan Complex," and Kekula says more resources are coming in today.

While conditions have proven relatively favorable over the last 24 hours, Kekula says they're looking towards Monday. should reach the 30 ° C mark again.

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ORIGINAL: 8:30

The Mount Eneas Forest Fire is now estimated at 1,374 hectares since Saturday morning, and is still considered out of control , but the crews managed to keep fire in their

Teams fly over the fire this morning to badess the fire, but the big fire did not cross Highway 97 in more than 24 hours.

Today, crews plan to reinforce the containment of the fire with the help of heavy equipment, hose and air support

The firefighters remained on the scene at night and 49 are expected today on fire.

Dozens of homes remain evacuated to the east and south