Evacuation alerts rescinded for Cool Creek, Snowy Mountain wildfires

Evacuation alerts and the state of local emergency because of the Cool Creek and Snowy Mountain wildfires have been rescinded, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen announced on Wednesday afternoon.

For the Snowy Mountain wildfire, the evacuation alert for Electoral Area B was first issued on August 1^st. That alert, now rescinded, affected the portion of Crown land within the Snowy Protected area, extending from the southern boundaries of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band to Cawston and south to the U.S. border, and west to the Chopaka 7 and 8 lands to the boundary of Electoral Area G.

For the Cool Creek wildfire, evacuation alerts were first issued on August 17^th. They affected an area south of Hedley in Electoral Area G, an area southeast of Princeton in Electoral Area H, plus Cathedral Lakes Provincial Park and the Cathedral Lakes Lodge basecamp in Ewart Creek.