{"id":22798,"date":"2014-08-19T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22798"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:31:12","slug":"regional-officials-lift-one-wildfire-evacuation-order-in-northern-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/19\/regional-officials-lift-one-wildfire-evacuation-order-in-northern-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional officials lift one wildfire evacuation order in northern B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10760\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/forest-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10760\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/forest-fire.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/forest-fire.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/forest-fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A wildfire evacuation order has been lifted for nearly 20 homes near the northern B.C. community of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The China Nose Fire was sparked by lightning, grew to about 37 square kilometres and forced the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako to issue an evacuation order late last week to about 120 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Regional district spokeswoman Rosanna von Sacken says that thanks to controlled burns by firefighters and better weather, the evacuation order has been downgraded to a less-serious evacuation alert for about 19 homes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking residents who are living near the community located about 300 kilometres west of Prince George, B.C., to remain vigilant because fire behaviour can change at any time.<\/p>\n<p>The Cariboo Regional District has also rescinded an evacuation order issued Aug. 12 for nine homes near a wildfire in the Alexis Creek area.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildfire Management Branch says as many as 163 firefighters, 15 helicopters and 37 pieces of heavy equipment have been used to battle the flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A wildfire evacuation order has been lifted for nearly 20 homes near the northern B.C. community of Houston. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}