{"id":591383,"date":"2026-04-09T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:43:10","slug":"out-of-control-wildfire-50-hectares-in-size-east-of-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591383\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control wildfire 50 hectares in size east of Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Out-of-control wildfire 50 hectares in size east of Merritt<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 4:25 pm Wednesday, April 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>BC Wildfire has a new update for the size of a wildfire on Hamilton Hill (Quilchena Creek) near Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfire on Hamilton Creek Indian Reserve No. 7 in the Lower Nicola Indian Band is now marked as 50-hectares according to BC Wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>In a social meda post, Lower Nicola Indian Band said it is aware of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A 100-hectare wildfire has been reported near Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) is reporting that an out-of-control wildfire in the Hamilton Creek Indian Reserve No. 7, in the Lower Nicola Indian Band, east of Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was discovered on April 8 and human-caused, according to BCWS,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out-of-control wildfire 50 hectares in size east of Merritt Published 4:25 pm Wednesday, April 8, 2026 UPDATE: BC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-591383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591383","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=591383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}