2 firefighters injured after semi-truck explosion on B.C. bridge<\/p>\n
Published 7:45 pm Monday, July 27, 2026<\/p>\n
UPDATE 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
A semi-truck caused a stoppage on the William R. Bennett Bridge on Sunday night after it caught on fire.<\/p>\n
Around 7:30 p.m. on July 26, the Kelowna Fire Department (KFD) responded to a report of a transport truck on fire pulled over northbound on the West Kelowna side of the bridge.<\/p>\n
The first responding officer found the truck\u2019s break system was on fire. Crews on scene extinguished the truck, cooling the brakes with a hose line.<\/p>\n
However, a small explosion under the trailer occurred, injuring two firefighters. They both suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
There were no injuries to the truck driver or the public.<\/p>\n
KFD responded to the scene with two engines and a command vehicle, totalling nine personnel. The Kelowna RCMP also attended the scene.<\/p>\n
UPDATE 8:28 p.m.<\/p>\n
One lane of traffic is now travelling northbound on the William R. Bennett Bridge. <\/p>\n
According to the DriveBC traffic cameras, the truck pulled over at 7:26 p.m., with the spill starting around 7:40 p.m., when the first fire truck arrived on scene. <\/p>\n
Multiple emergency vehicles are on scene.<\/p>\n
Original<\/p>\n
An apparent liquid has spilled from an semi, closing the William R. Bennett Bridge northbound on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The incident appears to have happened around 8 p.m. on July 26. Major delays are expected as northbound traffic is backed up to nearly Boucherie Road. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s unknown what caused the incident but the spilled liquid is pooling on the bridge.<\/p>\n
There is also no indication to when the northbound lanes will reopen. <\/p>\n
At least three fire trucks are on scene and are also briefly blocking the left lane southbound on the bridge.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unknown if anyone is injured at this time.<\/p>\n
Black Press Media has reached out to the Kelowna RCMP and the Kelowna Fire Department for more information.<\/p>\n
Planned bridge maintenance is also set to start at 9 p.m., causing a lane closure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 firefighters injured after semi-truck explosion on B.C. bridge Published 7:45 pm Monday, July 27, 2026 UPDATE 7:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-830636","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\/830636","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=830636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}