Okanagan Lake

• RCMP reminding boaters to stay away from areas under evacuation order along Westside Road

  While most of Okanagan Lake is now open following the threat of the McDougall Creek wildfire, the RCMP are reminding boaters that one area remains off limits.

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  Sep 10
  
• Ecologists say life will return to B.C. wildfire zone, but trees may never grow back

  Generally, it takes 40 to 60 years for young forests to get established and at least 100 years for mature forests to return, said Ken Lertzman of Simon Fraser University.

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  Sep 2
  
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• 2 key fires burning around Okanagan Lake are under control, but winds pose challenge to north

  Two of the three fires making up a devastating wildfire complex that destroyed almost 200 homes around Lake Okanagan in the B.C. Interior are now under control.

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  Sep 1
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• West Kelowna fire chief says it was like ‘100 years of firefighting in one night’ with more to come

  Officials confirmed early Friday structures have been destroyed in the McDougall Creek wildfire burning in West Kelowna.

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  Aug 18
• 20th anniversary of destructive 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park wildfire

  At its peak, the fire was approximately 250 square kilometres, about double the size of Vancouver, and it displaced 33,00 people who were ordered to flee their homes.

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  Aug 16
• Family of missing kayaker in Vernon feeling ‘helpless’ as search comes up short

  The search for the kayaker who went missing from an Okanagan lake last month has gotten to a stuttered start, but hope among his family that there will be closure still lingers. 

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  Aug 14
• West Kelowna, B.C. crews respond to Gellatly Bay boat fire

  Fire chief Jason Brolund with the West Kelowna Fire Department says flames broke out of the boat’s engine following a ‘mechanical malfunction.’

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  Aug 13
• Community support grows for family whose son died in Okanagan Lake camping accident

  “Truly, our sole focus is just wanting to help the family because nothing that we do or say, even our fundraising efforts … will ever help this pain.”

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  Aug 7
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• Man injured by boat propeller on Okanagan Lake

  The people on the boat managed to get the injured man on board and take him to the docks near the Sails statue in downtown Kelowna, where paramedics awaited.

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  Aug 6
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• ‘Pretty emotional’: Kelowna man swims entire distance of Okanagan Lake in 71 hours

  In just under three days, Nick Pelletier of Kelowna swam the entire distance of Okanagan Lake, from Vernon to Penticton.

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  Aug 5