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An Alberta Emergency Alert has been issued for the Town of Peace River, with residents of the downtown area being told to be ready to evacuate because of possible flooding.<\/p>\n
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The alert was issued just before 5 p.m. on Thursday and is in effect for everyone in the area of the Highway 2 Bridge to 104 Avenue in the south end of the town, including downtown and areas close to the Heart River.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tA map showing the areas under concern of possible flooding from the Peace River.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tSource: Town of Peace River\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Residents are being told to fuel their vehicles, gather important documents, medication, pets, food and water and be ready to leave \u201con very short notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While no evacuation order has been issued so far, the emergency alert says residents should be prepared to be away from home for at least three days.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tResidents of Peace River have become increasingly concerned about the possibility of flooding in recent days because of an ice jam that has formed up river from the town.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
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Concerns about flooding have been heightened in recent days because of an ice jam that formed on the Smoky River, which is a major tributary of the Peace River, located upriver from the town.<\/p>\n
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Residents of the area are also being advised to check the town\u2019s website<\/a> or the town\u2019s social media pages<\/a> for the latest updates.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Alberta Emergency Alert has been issued for the Town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,1132,43,84,44,234501,66,41,39,42,40,1133],"class_list":["post-625237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-environment","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-news","tag-peace-river-flooding","tag-science","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625237","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=625237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}