Massive fire breaks out at Penticton construction site<\/p>\n
Published 11:12 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2026<\/p>\n
A massive fire broke out in southern Penticton on Wednesday night, May 27, with flames visible as far as Okanagan Falls.<\/p>\n
Crews responded to Green Avenue West after 10 p.m., at the site of the former David Kampe estate and future long-term care facility, which broke ground on construction in November 2025.<\/p>\n
The Channel Parkway was closed in both directions, with DriveBC asking travellers to watch for traffic control.<\/p>\n
A road closure also took effect at Brandon Avenue and Paris Street to Green Avenue, near the Penticton Walmart.<\/p>\n
Penticton and Summerland fire departments responded, along with FortisBC and RCMP.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic safety remains the city\u2019s priority, and residents are asked to avoid the area to allow emergency operations to continue,\u201d city officials said in a social media post.<\/p>\n
It is unknown if there are any injuries.<\/p>\n
The cause of the blaze is not yet known.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massive fire breaks out at Penticton construction site Published 11:12 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2026 A massive fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,292362,452,453],"class_list":["post-669779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-okanagan","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}