BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) today reports its firefighters managed to save a structure threatened by an excursion of the Bill Nye Mountain wildfire and hold…
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Two new fires in region as gains made on Bill Nye
The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) reports a planned ignition on the Bill Nye Mountain wildfire was a partial success. The planned ignition was partly completed…
Bill Nye burns past 1,000 ha
BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) today (July 21) reports the Bill Nye Mountain wildfire, seven km southeast of Wasa, has grown by another 100 hectares in the…
Bill Nye wildfire continues to grow
The Bill Nye Mountain wildfire seven km southeast of Wasa continues to rapidly grow, now being estimated by the BC Wildfire Service as 784 hectares…
Two 100 ha fires out-of-control southeast of Wasa
Two large out-of-control wildfires southeast of Wasa continue to rage, each at an estimated 100 hectares and throwing giant towers of smoke, visible from Cranbrook,…
Bill Nye wildfire explodes overnight
BC Wildfire Service is mobilizing on seven new wildfires in the East Kootenay today (July 16), while a wildfire southeast of Wasa overnight exploded in…
Backcountry tenure proposal concerning: Wildsight
Town hall meeting in Kimberley April 30 A year round backcountry tenure for heli-skiing, heli-biking and heli-hiking and more is proposed for the heart of…
Biker bluff charged near Fernie
A day after two Kimberley residents were attacked by a sow grizzly with two cubs in the Dewar Creek area, a Fernie mountain biker experienced…