{"id":63232,"date":"2025-08-12T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63232\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:40:08","slug":"highway-3-closed-due-to-wildfire-west-of-osoyoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63232\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 3 closed due to wildfire west of Osoyoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BC Wildfire Service reports that an out-of-control wildfire just west of Osoyoos broke out on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This wildfire has caused Highway 3 to be closed in both directions, according to Drive BC.<\/p>\n<p>The closure is in effect at Old Richter Pass, around 10 kilometres west of the Osoyoos centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire is currently displaying rank one fire behavior, which means a smoldering ground fire with no visible flame, explained BC Wildfire Service spokesperson Taylor Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>The local Osoyoos Fire Rescue is aided in its firefighting efforts by 22 ground personnel from the BC Wildfire Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were supported by multiple aerial resources in the form of airtankers and helicopters,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>BC Wildfire Service says that the blaze is suspected to have been caused by humans.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently 7.5 hectares in size.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BC Wildfire Service reports that an out-of-control wildfire just west of Osoyoos broke out on Monday evening.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-63232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232","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=63232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}