{"id":868040,"date":"2026-08-23T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868040\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T01:52:10","slug":"new-wildfire-sparks-south-of-kamloops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868040\/","title":{"rendered":"New wildfire sparks south of Kamloops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1a635cf0-7176-47ea-9fbd-a1b51f7fd270.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: Kent Simmonds \/ CFJC Today)<\/p>\n<p>By Elora McCormack<\/p>\n<p>Kamloops Wildfire<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 22, 2026 | 1:15 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>KAMLOOPS \u2014 A new lightning-caused wildfire has been spotted south of Kamloops on Saturday (Aug 22).<\/p>\n<p>The BC Wildfire Service had the fire posted on their online map shortly before 12:30 p.m., and it is believed to be about six hectares in size.<\/p>\n<p>The out of control blaze is in the Jacko Lake area, about seven kilometres south of Kamloops.<\/p>\n<p>The BCWS has firefighters and aircraft attacking the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation alerts or alerts have yet to be implemented as a result of this fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: Kent Simmonds \/ CFJC Today) By Elora McCormack Kamloops Wildfire Aug 22, 2026 | 1:15 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-868040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868040","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=868040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}