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Empty bags and free sand are available for residents in the South Okanagan to fill and transport to their properties.

The RDOS is asking for help from the community to fill sandbags today at the public locations below.

In a media release the RDOS asks, if you have time available today and in the next few days, please go to these locations and offer your help. You can volunteer to do deliveries or filling.

There are safety and security issues with people taking full sandbags at the Oliver Airport and City of Penticton Fire Hall #2.

The full sandbags on pallets are not for the general public as they are being used to protect critical infrastructure and public safety.

The Oliver Airport and Penticton Fire Hall areas are only accessible to Emergency Services Personnel.

If you arrive at any of these locations below and there is either no sand or no empty bags, please contact the Emergency Operations Center at 250-490-4225. New locations of sand and sandbags may be added daily.

You can go to the following locations for your opportunity to help;

Area A
Osoyoos - Opposite DairyQueen at 5914 Main Street
Osoyoos - West side of Boat Trailer Parking Lot at 6901 Main Street
Osoyoos - 91st Street at Highway 97 Graveyard Hill

Area B
Keremeos Irrigation Pump Station 1st Avenue Hwy 3A
Lowe Drive and Upper Bench Road, Cawston Area B 2224 Newton Rd, Cawston
696 Lowe Drive, Cawston
Cawston Pine Lane and Newton Road
Cawston 2193 Newton Road

Area C
Oliver, corner of Maple and Cesna
Oliver Fire Department - 369 Similkameen Avenue 2
Oliver Public Works Yard, 5971 Sawmill Rd Area C Oliver rural - 124 Sportsmen Bowl Area C Oliver rural - 5422 Sunflower & 5433 Sumac
Oliver rural - 5432 Hwy 97 Area C Willowbrook - Carr Cres & Johnson
Willowbrook Fire Hall Area C Fruitstand at SW corner of Sportmen Bowl
450 Road 8, Oliver (Intersection Winery)
Willowbrook, Myers Rd and Johnson Cresc
309 Road 9

Area D
Okanagan Falls Seacan Cedar Street Keogan Park parking lot
Twin Lakes, 102 Twin Lakes Rd
Twin Lakes, Taggert Cresc and Hwy 3A
Twin Lakes, across from 451 Eastview Rd, Twin Lakes Area E Naramata Fire Hall

Area F
Faulder – by mailboxes Area F Faulder - 132 White Lake Rd
Meadow Valley - 822 Fish Lake Rd Area G Olalla - 1st and Main Area G Olalla - 5th and Main

Area H
Erris Fire Department / 2254 Princeton-Summerland Rd
Princeton, Public Works Yard Area H Princeton, Fire Hall, 174 Penryn Rd
Princeton, Exhibition Grounds
Tulameen Firehall Area H Missezula Lake, at the beach
Missezula Lake, 3590 Summers Ck

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