2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire

Wildfire in British Columbia, Canada 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire.jpg Okanagan Mountain Park 2003 08 16 25,912 ha acreFire Review Summary for Okanagan Mountain Fire (K50628) http://bcwildfire.ca/history/reportsandreviews/2003/okanagan_fire_review_k50628.pdf BC Wildfire Government of British Columbia 8 May 2016 lightning strike Parkland, rural 239 water bomber crash yes right 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire.map 49.75 -119.5 9 Perimeter of 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park fire (map data) thumb|Fire damage visible in background of Rattlesnake Island On August 16, 2003, at about 4 a.m. local time, a wildfire started via lightning strike near Rattlesnake Island in Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada. The wildfire was fuelled by a constant wind and the driest summer on record up to that time.BC's Year of Disastrous Weather - fires, floods and freezes https://ec.gc.ca/meteo-weather/default.asp?lang=En&n=CEEE807F-1#t1 Environment Canada 18 December 2009 Government of Canada 8 August 2017 Within a few days it grew into a firestorm. The fire spread northward and eastward, initially threatening a small number of lakeshore homes, but quickly became an interface zone fire and forced the evacuation of 27,000 residents, consuming 239 homes. The final size of the firestorm was over 250 square kilometres (25,912 ha acre or). Most of the trees in Okanagan Mountain Park burned, and the park was closed. 60 fire departments, 1,400 armed forces troops and 1,000 forest fire fighters took part in controlling the fire, but were largely incapable of stopping the disaster. There were also a number of aircraft used in an attempt to extinguish the fire, including three private Canadair CL-215s, four Government of Alberta owned Canadair CL-215s, four private Lockheed L188 Electra air tankers and at least one Martin Mars air tanker. Amateur radio operators assisted during the emergency. That total cost was estimated at $33.8 million. See also McDougall Creek Fire: A wildfire started on August 15, 2023 in the Okanagan region of British Columbia Operation Peregrine List of fires in Canada List of disasters in Canada References External links Okanagan Mountain fire: house sites aftermath https://www.ualberta.ca/~walld/kf.html 14 January 2009 Photographs of housing sites a few weeks after the fire, in September and October, 2003. Dr. Denis Wall Copyright. Okanagan Mountain Fire Watch Castanet.net http://castanet.firewatch.net/ September 30, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050920201345/http://castanet.firewatch.net/ 20 September 2005 dead – Firewatch page set up for local residents during the fire (has many photos) NASA/JPL satellite image of fires in Northwestern North America August 21, 2003 (1800x1500px) Links to news articles http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/photos/the-okanagan-mountain-park-forest-fire-ten-years-later-1.1418487 The Okanagan Mountain Park forest fire: Ten years later CBC.ca 21 January 2018 http://globalnews.ca/news/784424/10-years-later-remembering-the-okanagan-mountain-park-fire-gallery/ 10 years later: Remembering the Okanagan Mountain Park fire (Gallery) GlobalNews.ca 21 January 2018 https://theprovince.com/news/Photos+Okanagan+Mountain+Park+fire+then/8793168/story.html Okanagan Mountain Park fire, then and now NICK PROCAYLO TheProvince.com 21 January 2018 22 January 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180122125538/http://www.theprovince.com/news/Photos+Okanagan+Mountain+Park+fire+then/8793168/story.html dead Category:2000s wildfires in Canada Category:2003 disasters in Canada Category:2003 wildfires Category:2003 in British Columbia Category:Wildfires in British Columbia Category:History of the Okanagan Category:August 2003 in Canada