lifting all evacuation alerts at the Quilpituk Creek wildfire<\/a>, the Central Okanagan EOC announced the same for all properties in Peachland and Electoral Area West due to the Bald Range wildfire.<\/p>\n\u201cAlthough the Bald Range wildfire remains classified as out of control, BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) has concluded that the threat to these communities has passed,\u201d said the EOC in an Aug. 24 press release.<\/p>\n
According to the EOC, BCWS will continue mop up operations along the north and south flanks moving east to west and dousing any remaining heat 50 feet in from the fire\u2019s edge. Fire behaviour on these flanks remains low.<\/p>\n
COEM added that the Okanagan is still \u201cextremely dry\u201d and to report wildfire smoke at *5555 from a cell phone or 1-800-663-5555. \u201cIf there is a threat to life call 911.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evacuation alerts lifted in Peachland amid Bald Range wildfire in Summerland Published 5:23 am Tuesday, August 25, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,6090],"class_list":["post-870996","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\/870996","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=870996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}