{"id":117765,"date":"2025-09-03T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117765\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:08:12","slug":"rescue-underway-after-bc-wildfire-service-helicopter-forced-landing-near-pemberton-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117765\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue underway after BC Wildfire Service helicopter \u2018forced landing\u2019 near Pemberton &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aircrew and team of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bc-wildfire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Wildfire<\/a> Service firefighters are safe after an \u201caviation incident\u201d resulted in a \u201cforced landing\u201d of their helicopter near Pemberton late Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Video submitted to Global News shows smoke coming from a mountainside near Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p>Sea-to-Sky RCMP described the incident as an \u201cunfolding\u201d situation and urged people to keep clear of the Airport Road area.<\/p>\n<p>A BC Wildfire Service spokesperson said the helicopter was carrying an initial attack crew \u2014 typically a three-to-four-person unit \u2014 that was responding to one of several active wildfires near Pemberton.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individuals that were in the helicopter are all accounted for and there are no serious injuries reported at this time,\u201d fire information officer Forrest Tower said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently working with emergency partners to evacuate the individuals from where the forced landing occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board said it has been notified of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Helicopter crashes fighting Nova Scotia wildfire, pilot conscious'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/NSOTT_FRI_thumbnail_1280x720.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:42<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHelicopter crashes fighting Nova Scotia wildfire, pilot conscious\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aircrew and team of BC Wildfire Service firefighters are safe after an \u201caviation incident\u201d resulted in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26745,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-117765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-bc-wildfire","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}