News Items tag as: BX Swan Lake Fire Department 2017

UPDATE: Firefighters knock down blaze in the BX area of Vernon
September 13, 2017 - 8:30 AM

VERNON - Firefighters fought a fire in the BX-Swan Lake area of Vernon last night.
UPDATE: Wildfire burning in Vernon's BX area now under control
August 30, 2017 - 10:00 AM

VERNON - A 0.2-hectare wildfire in Vernon's BX area is now under control, according to B.C. Wildfire.
Pickup fire caught on video near Vernon
June 30, 2017 - 10:46 AM

VERNON – Video sent to iNFOnew.ca shows firefighters dealing with the remnants of a vehicle fire near Swan Lake yesterday.
Vernon family makes it out just in time as flames swallow home
March 07, 2017 - 8:55 AM

VERNON - A Vernon family barely made it out of their home in time before it went up in flames yesterday evening.
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
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Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

UPDATE: Firefighters knock down blaze in the BX area of Vernon