Effective at 4 p.m. MDT on Monday, July 10, 2023, Category 1 campfires have been prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire […]

From buying portable water tanks and equipment trailers, to providing specialized training and gear to their wildfire-fighting crews, 12 small […]

Saturday, May 6th is Wildfire Community Preparedness Day and residents across the East Kootenay are being asked to take action […]

Members of the Hosmer Fire Department responded to a structure fire this evening. “Five pieces of apparatus and five firefighters […]

It’s Fire Prevention Week 2022 from October 9 to 15th. The theme set out by the National Fire Protection Association […]

The Southeast fire centre currently has 66 active fires with 3 new fires in the last 2 days.

Effective at 12:00 noon PDT on Friday, September 2, 2022, campfires will be allowed in the Southeast Fire Centre. The […]

Effective at noon PDT on Thursday, August 4, 2022, campfires will be prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire Centre’s jurisdiction to […]

The BC Wildfire Service has issued a Category 2 open burning ban that will go into effect at 1pm Mountain […]

The BC Wildfire Service has issued a Category 3 open burning ban that will go into effect at 1pm Mountain Time (Noon Pacific) on June 30th.

As the days warm up and the wildfire season approaches, communities and groups in the Columbia Basin can access new […]