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UPDATE: ‘Significant structural loss’ from McDougall Creek fire, 2,400 properties on evacuation order, grows to 6,800 ha.
UPDATE: 10:30 p.m.
Officials are saying there was “significant structural loss” overnight due to the McDougall Creek wildfire near West Kelowna.
Loyal Wooldridge, chair of the Regional District of Central Okanagan, told a news conference in Kelowna the number of structures damaged will be assessed over the coming days, but some of the damage was in the Trader’s Cove area of RDCO and on Bear Creek Road in West Kelowna.
Wooldridge said there has been no loss of life that they are aware of.