{"id":82099,"date":"2025-07-22T03:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82099\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:10:22","slug":"crews-battling-wildfire-along-nanaimo-river-south-of-city-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82099\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battling wildfire along Nanaimo River, south of city | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Smoke comes from a wildfire along Nanaimo River Rd. Monday afternoon. (BC Wildfire Service)<\/p>\n

By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n

wildfire response<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tJul 21, 2025 | 4:09 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

NANAIMO \u2014 Firefighters from at least two local volunteer departments, as well as Coastal Fire Centre staff, are on scene of a wildfire south of the city.<\/p>\n

Reports came in before 3:30 p.m. on Monday, July 21 of smoke and flames spotted in land off Nanaimo River Rd., west of the South Forks Rd. intersection and on the northern side of the Nanaimo River.<\/p>\n

Extension Volunteer Fire Department was among the first on scene, later supported by Cranberry and Coastal Fire Centre firefighters, including initial attack crews, officers and a water tender.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s being measured as three hectares in size and was considered a \u2018rank two\u2019 fire, meaning it was a surface fire with \u201clow vigour\u201d with an \u201cunorganized or inconsistent flame front\u201d, according to the province\u2019s scale<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke comes from a wildfire along Nanaimo River Rd. Monday afternoon. (BC Wildfire Service) By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff wildfire…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,2147,23406,23401,23407,23400,23402,23403,50,18010,23404,23405,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-82099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-central-vancouver-island","11":"tag-nanaimo","12":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","13":"tag-nanaimo-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","15":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oceanside","18":"tag-parksville","19":"tag-qualicum","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114894695776603011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82099","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=82099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}