“residents are being directed to an interactive map”
This seems problematic, do they not have emergency broadcasts anymore?
I wounder if someone sold them on a bunch of “efficiencies” by dropping radio, tv and whatnot in favour of a web based solution? And now that I think on it, was Canada not listed lately as having some of the worst rural cell/internet infrastructure in the world?
Are you telling me we pay the highest in the world for mobile plans AND have the shittiest cell infrastructure. Jesus christ…
I live in Kelowna and am just on the edge of an evacuation alert area and I don’t have a radio or cable so I can’t say if those exist but the map is helpful.
Been checking that thing ever 5 minutes today…
It doesn’t work on my phone. Also they’re not making it easy to find. It should be a giant link right at the top of every article, instead it’s regular size text buried in the middle of the article.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Friday morning, officials said a number of properties were destroyed in the Trader Cove area and Bear Lake Road north of West Kelowna.
Due to the high number of properties under evacuation orders and alerts, residents are being directed to an interactive map to search by address to find out how individual homes and businesses are affected.
Everyone covered by an evacuation alert is asked to be prepared to leave at a moment’s notice as the province faces a highly volatile wildfire situation.
Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says the wildfire service has "significant resources’’ on the West Kelowna fire, but she urges everyone in the region to prepare in case they are ordered to leave.
Wildfire Service, says the cold front that began sweeping the southern half of the province Thursday is bringing in high, unpredictable winds and dry lightning that create the potential for new fires and growth on those they are trying to contain.
DriveBC said Thursday that wildfire activity has closed a stretch of Highway 1 in both directions between Hope and Lytton, the community 150 kilometres northeast of Vancouver that was almost completely destroyed by fire in 2021.
The original article contains 1,106 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 84%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Easy to reduce the words when you just remove spaces and combine words randomly :D
Still saves me the hassle of opening the link. I’m very glad this bot exists.
Yeah I was just kidding around, didn’t realize it would touch a nerve like that.
Oh boy, time for our yearly provincial emergency declaration! …Wait, wasn’t this the second one this year? 🤔
I wonder if this fire season will slow down the insane immigration to BC. I mean I am certainly starting to wonder if it’s a good idea to settle down here at all.
The xenophobic comment was the 4th one down.
We should be better Canadians.
How was that xenophobic??
I was more referring to other Canadians relocating to BC en masse
It’s like some of you people are brainwashed that “immigration” is an unspeakable word
Immigration isn’t only for an international context but can also be used for people that immigrate from one city to another. One can be xenophobic if one dislikes the idea of people moving where they live (be that for prejudice of other’s culturies or for a belief that their home city will be worse due to immigration). People will always move where they please and using that as argument is just tiring. We need ways to regulate housing and stop people from profiting over it.
All I know is that despite all evidence that our world is increasingly turning into an inferno, that humans are still pro-human and will continue to want more humans. I guess we’re just going to have to reap the predictable consequences of our obsession with overpopulating ourselves.
Hold up friend, you’re really close on stepping on really dangerous ground (fascism).
No, I don’t think depopulating the Earth is a fascist concept. I think murdering specific groups of people is fascist. I’m just talking about the unsustainability of the human plague.
“Okanagan Lake Resort was consumed in the fire.”
Man, I hope Ogopogo is OK!
It’s one thing to say it’s not a joke (obviously it’s not), but then everyone’s telling this guy it’s not reddit, yet are piling all over him like it is.
Obviously emotions are high, that’s valid. But it’s just a stupid joke, like I’m 100% positive this guy meant no harm. Let’s move on. And I’m concerned about Ogopogo, and all of the Okanagan, like I think everyone else is, including this guy.
