First responders immediately began evacuating homes on several streets overlooking Okanagan Lake and two nearby golf clubs.The regional district says it issued an evacuation order to support those efforts.The B.C. Wildfire Service rates the fire danger in the south Okanagan as high to extreme and while showers were in the forecast Thursday, there was also the risk of lightning and strong, gusty winds.
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