{"id":94366,"date":"2025-08-24T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94366\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:26:07","slug":"out-of-control-wildfire-grows-to-50-hectares-overnight-near-yale-evacuation-alerts-issued-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94366\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control wildfire grows to 50 hectares overnight near Yale, evacuation alerts issued | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d53499dd-bcfa-44cf-a6fa-941b83e1847e.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image: Kamscan \/ X \/ A new wildfire has grown to 50 hectares overnight near Yale as of Sunday, August 24.<\/p>\n<p>By Alyssa Conti<\/p>\n<p>GROWING WILDFIRE<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 24, 2025 | 8:19 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>YALE \u2014 A new wildfire at the side of a mountain has rapidly spread overnight, roughly seven kilometres north of Yale, triggering an evacuation alert from Spuzzum First Nation and the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD).<\/p>\n<p>The Sailor Bar fire, initially discovered at 2.1 hectares on Saturday evening (Aug. 23), has now grown to 50 hectares and is highly visible from Highway 1.<\/p>\n<p>Scanner traffic reported that the night-vision helicopter struggled to tackle the blaze, partly due to poor visibility and an extremely steep slope posing significant safety concerns to first responders.<\/p>\n<p>There are four helicopters and one initial attack crew on scene as of this afternoon (Aug. 24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Kamscan \/ X \/ A new wildfire has grown to 50 hectares overnight near Yale as of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44937,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-94366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94366","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=94366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}