Image Credit: TNRD Evacuation Alert map

By Dave Barry

Wildfire

Evacuation downgrades around White Rock Lake wildfire

Aug 10, 2021 | 7:20 AM

KAMLOOPS – The Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) has issued a series of evacuation downgrades for communities near the large White Rock Lake wildfire.

Communities on the western and southern edges of the fire within the TNRD have been given the ‘all-clear’. Communities impacted include Douglas Lake to the south and rural Barnhartvale to the west.

The northeastern flank of the fire has also received the all clear. That includes properties along the Chase-Falkland road. The Village of Chase also rescinded its Evacuation Alert earlier today (Aug. 9).

The communities of Monte Lake and Pritchard are under Evacuation Alerts while closer to the fire, Westwold remains under an Evacuation Order.

According to the BC Wildfire Service, the current weather conditions have mostly stalled the fire. It reports no significant growth in the fire’s size or direction. The White Rock Lake wildfire is an estimated 55,700 hectares.

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Below is a TNRD map of the current Evacuation Alerts highlighted in yellow.

Image Credit: TNRD Evacuation Alert map

Below is a map of the TNRD all-clear map. The areas now in the clear are highlighted in green.

Image Credit: TNRD Evacuation All-Clear map

Some areas of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District and the Central Okanagan Regional District have also partially downgraded evacuations within their boundaries.