{"id":646231,"date":"2026-05-04T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:50:08","slug":"vancouver-island-wildfire-reported-burning-near-hilliers-now-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646231\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island wildfire reported burning near Hilliers now \u2018under control\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Vancouver Island wildfire reported burning near Hilliers now \u2018under control\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 5:00 pm Sunday, May 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A wildfire reported near Howard Road in Hilliers is now \u201cunder control\u201d, according to the BC Wildfire Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Coombs-Hilliers, Dashwood, Errington, Parksville and Qualicum Beach fire departments responded to the blaze shortly after 1:30 p.m. on May 3.<\/p>\n<p>BC Wildfire Service has been notified. The fire is within the Coombs-Hilliers Fire Department jurisdiction and BCWS is providing assistance with an initial attack crew and a response officer.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is less than a hectare in size as of 4:31 p.m., according to the BCWS online dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is suspected human-caused, according to BCWS.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/pqbnews.com\/2026\/04\/27\/update-wildfire-near-coombs-now-being-held\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UPDATE: Wildfire near Coombs now \u2018being held\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island wildfire reported burning near Hilliers now \u2018under control\u2019 Published 5:00 pm Sunday, May 3, 2026 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-646231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646231","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=646231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}