News Items tag as: Kelowna Fire Department 2018 Three vehicles on fire in Kelowna storage structure December 16, 2018 - 8:49 AM KELOWNA — Early this morning Kelowna Fire Department received a report of three vehicles on fire inside a mechanic bay-type structure. Suspicious vehicle fires force evacuation of Kelowna apartments November 14, 2018 - 10:09 AM KELOWNA - Residents of a Kelowna apartment building had to be evacuated after a number of vehicles caught fire. Hedge fire generates lots of smoke, calls to 911 in Kelowna September 17, 2018 - 4:44 PM KELOWNA - Relax folks, it was only a hedge fire. Huge fire guts commercial building in Kelowna September 10, 2018 - 11:18 AM KELOWNA - A massive clean-up job awaits after fire investigators are done combing through the remains of a massive structure fire early this morning in the 2700 block of Highway 97 in Kelowna. Fire half destroys a Kelowna woodworking shop August 25, 2018 - 8:50 AM KELOWNA - A large fire destroyed about half of a woodworking building in Kelowna yesterday. No one home during fire that ripped through Kelowna home August 21, 2018 - 12:24 PM KELOWNA - An early morning fire in Rutland caused “major damage” to a two-storey house on Highway 33. Small fire forces employees out of cidery in Kelowna August 02, 2018 - 5:02 PM KELOWNA - A small fire has forced the early closing of the B.C. Tree Fruits cidery and packinghouse on Vaughn Avenue in downtown Kelowna. UPDATE: Glenmore fire officially held; evacuation alerts for Wilden and area July 27, 2018 - 4:01 PM KELOWNA - Fire crews have managed to hold the interface fire in Glenmore but evacuation alerts in the community of Wilden and area will remain. Rutland senior centre fire damages much more than just the building July 27, 2018 - 1:00 PM KELOWNA - Outside the Rutland Seniors Centre, Sue Lord could only shake her head as she contemplated the damage caused by an arson fire. Homeless housing strategy could help reduce transient-caused fires in Kelowna July 25, 2018 - 7:30 PM CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Fires caused by homeless people have been an annual occurrence in Kelowna for years, but there’s hope that could change with the advent of the Journey Home housing strategy. More ... GEORGE: Protesting the future: It didn't work in 1920 and it ain't gonna work now either... OPINION The tight integration between oil companies, governments, and the rest of the economy has led to chaos in the oil markets recently and will have predictable effects in the months and years to come. Those makin EDITORIAL CARTOON Top News Astronaut Saint-Jacques fields children's questions on Santa, climate change LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques took a break from his scientific responsibilities aboard th December 19, 2018 7:00 AM CSIS gathered info on peaceful groups, but only in pursuit of threats: Watchdog OTTAWA - Canada's spy service collected some information about peaceful anti-petroleum groups, but only incident December 19, 2018 6:00 AM Freeland says Trump metal tariffs 'contradict' new NAFTA and will have to go OTTAWA - Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs contradict a key component of the new North American trade ag December 18, 2018 9:00 PM Indigenous sterilization victims fear inaction as feds eye examination OTTAWA - "Do you want them cut or burned?" Deb Ironbow says she was light-headed, powerless and stra December 18, 2018 8:00 PM Funding shortfalls for roads, parks nothing new in Kelowna; what's new is $477 million price tag KELOWNA - The shocking cost of rebuilding aging roads, buildings and parks did not come as a surprise to those worki December 18, 2018 5:30 PM Tweets by @infonewsvernon