News Items tag as: Kelowna Fire Department 2018

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.
Squatters may be to blame for shed fire on vacant Kelowna property
July 25, 2018 - 9:58 AM

KELOWNA - Transients are again being implicated in a Kelowna fire, after a garden shed went up in flames early this morning.
Police in Kelowna investigating suspicious grass fire
July 20, 2018 - 3:33 PM

KELOWNA - RCMP are now investigating what they say is a suspicious grass fire on Dilworth Mountain.
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