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Fallen trees, bears are risks for B.C. wildfire evacuees returning home: officials
Officials say 2,648 properties were downgraded to alerts as the Bald Range fire remains active and new orders were added on Princeton-Summerland Road.
- Evacuation orders have been lifted for about 400 Trout Creek properties and all Peachland properties, allowing residents to return despite risks such as fallen trees, damaged buildings, and roaming bears.
- Residents returning are advised to bring at least three days of food and gas, coordinate pet and livestock safety, and cleanup kits are provided by officials.
- The Quilpituk Creek fire is now controlled, allowing over 2,600 properties in the Central Okanagan to downgrade from evacuation orders to alerts, with no properties lost according to official assessments.
- The Bald Range fire remains active, having burned about 200 square kilometers and claimed one life; new evacuation orders have been issued due to increased fire activity on some flanks and changing conditions.
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Thousands of B.C. fire evacuees allowed home, but Summerland orders remain in place
VANCOUVER - Residents of more than 2,000 properties near Okanagan Lake are being allowed home after wildfire evacuation orders were lifted, although they remain in place for the separate fire
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