{"id":138566,"date":"2025-08-12T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:53:14","slug":"new-wildfire-flares-up-west-of-osoyoos-closing-highway-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138566\/","title":{"rendered":"New wildfire flares up west of Osoyoos, closing Highway 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews have been called to battle a new wildfire burning just west of Osoyoos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fire, which was first discovered late Monday, is burning along Highway 3 on the west side of Osoyoos Lake and north of the airport, and was last mapped at 7.5 hectares in size.<\/p>\n<p>DriveBC said Highway 3 was closed in both directions at Old Richter Pass Road.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Wildfire risk heats up in Kelowna'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/web_still_extreme_heat_risk.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:52<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWildfire risk heats up in Kelowna\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen said residents of the area should be prepared to leave if notified.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Global News viewers reported both planes and helicopters dumping water on the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The fire is classified as out of control, meaning it is spreading or expected to spread beyond its current perimeter, and believed to have been sparked by human activity.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews have been called to battle a new wildfire burning just west of Osoyoos. The fire, which was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20718,2147,5025,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-138566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bc-wildfire","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013537326837902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}