{"id":868423,"date":"2026-08-23T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:12:09","slug":"wildfire-sparks-in-kelownas-black-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868423\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire sparks in Kelowna\u2019s Black Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Wildfire sparks in Kelowna\u2019s Black Mountain<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:39 pm Saturday, August 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\n                    By Brittany Webster\/Kelowna Capital News\n                                      <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 7:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A wildfire the sparked in Kelowna\u2019s Black Mountain area is now being held. <\/p>\n<p>The blaze is estimated at under one hectare in size and is not expected to grow. <\/p>\n<p>A lightening strike caused the wildfire. <\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL<\/p>\n<p>A wildfire has started in the Black Mountain neighbourhood, on the east side of Kelowna, just south of Tower Ranch Drive. <\/p>\n<p>The fire started from a lightening strike and is estimated at less than one hectare in size. <\/p>\n<p>BC Wildfire Service reports the blaze to be rank one, meaning it is a smouldering ground fire and spreading slowly. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are actioning the blaze. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire sparks in Kelowna\u2019s Black Mountain Published 7:39 pm Saturday, August 22, 2026 By Brittany Webster\/Kelowna Capital News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,6090],"class_list":["post-868423","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\/868423","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=868423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}