Monday, August 14, 2017

Cariboo-Chilcotin Fire Update -- August 14th am

Good morning:

Since yesterday - the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) issued 1 Evacuation Order and 1 Evacuation Alert.  For the current list of CRD Evacuation Alerts/Orders, click here

For the current Evacuation Alert for the City of Williams Lake - click here.

The Districts' of Wells/100 Mile House and the City of Quesnel currently do not have their Emergency Operations Centre activated nor do they have an active Evacuation Alert or Order

Up-to-date information of the Wildfires of Note in the Cariboo Fire Centre, including all fires within the Cariboo Regional District, can be viewed here

If your CRD Electoral Area is partially under an Evacuation Order (Areas B, D, F, H, I, J, K and L) - you can call the CRD Emergency Ops Centre (EOC) Public Info Line for questions/clarifications at 1-866-759-4977 or use the online map at https://cariboo.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=ee2b98baf5544f028aed537461762081

A reminder that off-road vehicle use is currently BANNED in the Cariboo, Kamloops and Southeast Fire Centres.  More details here.  An Area Restriction Order banning access to the back country for ALL Crown Land was issued on Friday, August 11th by the Cariboo Fire Centre until September 5th or sooner, if conditions allow.  Full details here

Williams Lake Mayor Walt Cobb issued a message to his community last night, as follows:

Sunday night and hopefully we are just ending the thunder and lightening storm . Just finished the daily conference call. A number of lightening strikes today and once again we are ok here in the city. Once again no new fires or expansion near town. The last hour or so information may not be available yet so if you see anything that even resembles a fire call in immediately. *5555 or 911. Our fire crews are maxed out and any new fires will take fighters away from the larger ones in order to contain any new ones.
For those of you still away from home we had a mixed bag today. Beautiful morning with a little rain last night. The smoke started rolling in about 10:30. Very Smokey then the rain came a couple of times. Not enough but beter than nothing. One more safe day here in the city and as one person said all hell broke loose and mother nature kicked ass in some areas.
More rain needed.


Finally - friendly reminder to continue to rely ONLY on official sources for Evacuation Alerts or Orders from your local government website or Facebook page or through the local media - Tribune (click here) or Vista Radio (click here).

Further Cariboo RD Wildfire Resources:

· YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk6Y8zWI_hHJXMgSIiJB-9w
· Facebook at www.facebook.com/CRDEmergencyOperations
· Website at http://cariboord.ca/services/emergency-and-protective-services/emergency-operations-centre-eoc/eoc-cariboo-fires-video-updates

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