{"id":842210,"date":"2026-08-02T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842210\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:38:13","slug":"westbank-first-nation-opens-gym-to-shelter-wildfire-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842210\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbank First Nation opens gym to shelter wildfire evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Westbank First Nation opens gym to shelter wildfire evacuees<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 12:16 am Sunday, August 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Brittany Webster\/Kelowna Capital News\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>Three wildfires burning on the west side of Okanagan Lake have prompted thousands of properties to be placed under evacuation orders and alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfire evacuees and Okanagan Indian Band members are invited to seek shelter at the Westbank First Nation gym, 1920 Quail Lane, Westbank.<\/p>\n<p>The facility has snacks, water, a limited number of sleeping mats, washroom facilities, and security-patrolled parking.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Support Services will open at 9 a.m. at Westbank Lions Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westbank First Nation opens gym to shelter wildfire evacuees Published 12:16 am Sunday, August 2, 2026 By Brittany&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,6090],"class_list":["post-842210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842210","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=842210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}