{"id":548368,"date":"2026-03-20T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:46:11","slug":"state-of-emergency-declared-for-part-of-fraser-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548368\/","title":{"rendered":"State of emergency declared for part of Fraser Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) has declared a state of local emergency for Electoral Area E due to increased risks of flooding, landslides, mudslides, and overbanking creeks.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the BC River Forecast Centre has upgraded a high streamflow advisory to a flood watch in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The FVRD says the situation poses an \u201cexisting or imminent threat to people and property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t clear how long the state of emergency will remain in effect. For now, board chair Patricia Ross says it will be in place until April 2 unless it is cancelled by the FVRD or the Ministry of Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chilliwack-River-Valley-Flooding-Flood-Watch-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Chilliwack River is seen on Thursday March 19, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-4407923\"  \/>(Cecila Hua, CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>The last state of emergency in the area was declared Dec. 10, 2025, also during an atmospheric river event. This was in place until well into January.<\/p>\n<p>The FVRD says sand and sandbags are available at several locations. Residents are advised to bring their own shovels.<\/p>\n<p>Electoral Area E covers more than 650 square kilometres and is home to over 1,500 residents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chilliwack-River-Valley-Flooding-Flood-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4407927\"  \/>(Cecila Hua, CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the province\u2019s River Forecast Centre issued a flood watch for the South Coast, including parts of Metro Vancouver, the North Shore, Squamish, the Fraser Valley, and the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n<p>With files from Charles Brockman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) has declared a state of local emergency for Electoral Area E due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-548368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548368","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=548368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}