{"id":889746,"date":"2026-09-09T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:40:08","slug":"all-active-vancouver-island-wildfires-under-control-my-cowichan-valley-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889746\/","title":{"rendered":"All active Vancouver Island wildfires under control : My Cowichan Valley Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All active wildfires on Vancouver Island were under control as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The BC Wildfire Service said five active wildfires were burning in the North Island and had all been triggered by lightning in mid-August.<\/p>\n<p>The largest fire, west of Vernon Lake, had grown to 105 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>None of the fires prompted evacuations or damaged structures.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 297 wildfire starts in the Coastal Fire Centre since March 16. Of those, 266 are listed as out.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the BC Wildfire Service lifting its campfire ban through most of the Coastal Fire Centre last week thanks to recent precipitation and cooler temperatures. Larger Category 2 and 3 fires remain prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>There are no active wildfires in the Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All active wildfires on Vancouver Island were under control as of Tuesday morning. The BC Wildfire Service said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[40761,49,48,44855,55,36245,6090],"class_list":["post-889746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-bc-wildfire-service","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sunshine-coast","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-island","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889746","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=889746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}