The situation is becoming more dire by the minute for Penticton residents displaced by Friday’s Highland Motel fire. A makeshift shelter was set up in the gym of the Penticton Community Centre but emergency shelter funds have run dry. Every other motel in #Penticton is packed with summer tourists so fire evacuees spent the last...

About a dozen people are out of their homes and several lost everything they own after a fire broke out at the Highland Motel in Penticton Friday afternoon.