Wildfires consuming B.C.’s Kelowna area beaten back, offering province road to recovery
After four days of firefighting, B.C. officials said Sunday it’s now possible to begin talking about recovery, though some evacuation orders have still not been lifted
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Four relentless days of firefighting and some co-operative weather is offering some cautious hope that the ferocious blaze that has consumed neighbourhoods in B.C.’s Kelowna area and forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes has been beaten back.
He said there will be up to 50 people from Canada Task Force 1 assisting on the ground, including members of the Vancouver fire rescue and police services, engineers, paramedics and technical experts.
Mr. Brolund said recovery efforts will involve Vancouver’s heavy urban search-and-rescue team that arrived in Kelowna earlier in the day and will help take inventory of wildfire destruction in affected areas.
While the blaze burning through Kelowna’s urban areas has received much media attention, wildfires have also left those in rural regions struggling to find shelter for their animals, and some have had to consider whether to heed the strongly-worded orders for them to leave.
The farmhouse, with its two-story turret made of rocks and a pond full of trout who jump to surface whenever Claire Allgaier throws a handful of food for them, looks like an oasis surrounded by darkened seas.
Mr. Krebber, who owns a nearby wedding venue called Little Creek Ranch, is towing a generator and a crate of water, and stops suddenly to put out a spot fire burning beside the road.
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