{"id":873133,"date":"2026-08-27T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:50:08","slug":"bc-wildfire-service-reporting-new-wildfire-start-east-of-vernon-not-expected-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/873133\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Wildfire Service reporting new wildfire start east of Vernon not expected to grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfire east of Vernon held<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"The large red dot shows where a new 0.4 hectare wildfire is burning east of Vernon Wednesday evening.\" class=\"large_overlay\" limg=\"\/content\/2026\/8\/large\/screenshot_2026-08-26_at_6.11.01pm_p4299180.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot_2026-08-26_at_6.11.01pm_p4299180.jpg\" style=\"height:385px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: BCWS<\/p>\n<p>The large red dot shows where a new 0.4 hectare wildfire is burning east of Vernon Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Wildfire Service is now reporting the lightning-caused wildfire east of Vernon is now held.<\/p>\n<p>That means the fire is not expected to grown beyond its current borders.<\/p>\n<p>The fire grew to about 0.5 hectares in size before being contained.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently another, spot sized wildfire, directly north of the fire off Highway 6 that was also discovered today and believed to be caused by lightning, according to the BCWS website.<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL: 6:21 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A new wildfire has been found east of Vernon this evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BC Wildfire Service, a 0.4 hectare blaze has popped up some 50 kilometres away from Vernon on the south side of Highway 6.<\/p>\n<p>The out of control wildfire is believed to have been caused by lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire east of Vernon held Photo: BCWS The large red dot shows where a new 0.4 hectare wildfire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-873133","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\/873133","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=873133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}