A burned out house on Nighthawk Road in Okanagan Centre, July 2017. RCMP have announced they are seeking a serial arsonist who may have deliberately set as many as 29 wildfires in the Okanagan Valley over the last four years.
(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca)
July 05, 2018 - 4:17 PM
OKANAGAN - RCMP have announced they are seeking a serial arsonist who may have deliberately set as many as 29 wildfires in the Okanagan Valley over the last four years.
That list includes a Lake Country fire that destroyed eight homes last summer, RCMP E Division media relations officer Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said in a press release.
The 29 fires were set in the communities of Naramata, Okanagan Falls, Osoyoos, Oliver, Penticton, Summerland and Lake Country and took place between July 7, 2014 and September 1, 2017.
Linteau said the RCMP set up the Intentionally Set Wildfires Task Force in May to further the investigation and to identify the person or persons responsible.
The task force is inter-jurisdictional and can override inter-agency boundaries, the release said.
The 29 wildfires include, in part, the following:
July 7, 2014, K50209, Naramata
July 7, 2014, White Lake Rd, Penticton
July 9, 2014, Richter Pass, Osoyoos
July 15, 2014, Mt. Kobau, Oliver
July 15, 2014, Apex Rd, Penticton
July 17, 2014, Reservoir Rd / Landfill Rd, Penticton
July 22, 2014, White Lake Rd, Okanagan Falls
August 11, 2014, Chute Lake Rd, Naramata
August 11, 2014, Green Mountain Rd, Penticton
August 13, 2014, White Lake Rd, Penticton
August 19, 2014, North Naramata Rd, Naramata
September 15, 2014, Green Mountain Rd, Penticton
July 2, 2015, Canyon View Rd, Summerland
August 7, 2015, Pampas Grass Way, Oliver
August 8, 2015, Spiller Rd, Penticton
August 11, 2015, Commonage Rd, Lake Country
August 11, 2015, Beaver Lake Rd, Lake Country
August 12, 2015, Gulch Rd, Naramata
August 14, 2015, White Lake Rd, Penticton
April 9, 2016, Fairview-Cawston Rd, Cawston
August 17, 2016, Commonage Rd, Lake Country
August 17, 2016, Oyama Rd, Lake Country
July 3, 2017, Pixie Beach, Lake Country
July 15, 2017, Okanagan Centre Rd W, Lake Country
September 1, 2017, Westhills Rd, Penticton
September 1, 2017, Old Princeton Hwy, Summerland
The Southeast District RCMP Intentionally Set Wildfires Task Force asks that anyone who has any information about any of the 29 wildfires or who may have seen anyone suspicious around the areas to contact the designated tip line 1-855-685-8788.
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