Effective at noon PDT on Friday, June 3, 2016, Category 3 open fires will be prohibited in the Southeast Fire Centre to help prevent human-caused wildfires and protect public safety.

The BC Wildfire Service and the Windermere Fire Department are holding a FireSmart Community Champion Workshop at the Windermere fire hall on Saturday, May 28.

Residents of the Christina Lake, Grand Forks and Creston areas may experience smoky conditions as a result of prescribed burning taking place in both Washington and Idaho.

The Southeast Fire Centre is asking the public to exercise caution while conducting any outdoor burning activities this spring, due to expected warm and dry weather conditions this week.

BC Parks, the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program and the BC Wildfire Service will be conducting a 45-hectare ecosystem restoration burn west of Tulip Creek in Syringa Provincial Park.

Gurpreet Kaur was living in her home district of Tarn Taran in India when she realized that she wanted to do something different from her current work as a nurse-midwife. A quick search on Google brought her information on Selkirk College in Castlegar and the college’s two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Gerontological Nursing.

Effective at noon (PDT) on Oct. 9, 2015, Category 3 open fires will be permitted throughout the Southeast Fire Centre, with the exception of the Boundary Fire Zone, due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

The BC Wildfire Service, in conjunction with BC Timber Sales and the Kaslo and District Community Forest Society, is planning to conduct two prescribed burns in the Kootenay Lake Fire Zone. Burning will take place between Oct. 8-10, 2015, weather conditions permitting.

Effective at noon (Pacific time) on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 Category 2 open fires will be permitted within the Cranbrook Fire Zone and Category 3 open fires will be permitted in the Columbia Zone of the Southeast Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires.

Effective noon (Pacific time) Friday, Sept. 18, Category 2 open fires will be permitted within the Arrow and Kootenay Lake Fire Zones of the Southeast Fire Centre due to a decreased risk of wildfires.