Frontier Wildfire

11/28/2025

Do something cool this coming fire season!

Our Parattack program is recruiting smokejumpers for the 2026 fire season. Skilled and experienced, smokejumpers are trained firefighters who parachute from fixed-wing aircraft to access emerging wildfires or wildfires that are under resourced.

Based out of the Prince George Fire Centre in Fort St. John and Mackenzie, the Parattack program can respond anywhere in the province within two hours, making them our most flexible and mobile provincial resource. All smokejumpers are prepared to be self-sufficient for 48 hours.

If you’re interested in joining the Parattack team and have a minimum of one year of firefighting experience, apply by Jan.11, 2026.

More information: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/employment-and-contracts/employment/wildfire-fighters/parattack-wildfire-fighters

08/01/2025

Watch out for lane closures between Penticton and Kelowna!

We are currently responding to the Drought Hill wildfire (K51121), located approximately two kilometers north of Peachland between Highway 97C and Highway 97. The fire is currently estimated at 12 hectares in size and is classified as Out of Control.

We are responding with initial attack crews, response officers, structure protection personnel and aerial support, including helicopters, tankers and skimmers. Aircraft will be using Okanagan Lake as a water source throughout the afternoon. We are asking the public and recreators to give these critical resources room to work. People using watercraft should move quickly out of the way of skimmers to allow them the space they need to move safely.

The fire is currently burning Rank 3 to Rank 4, meaning a moderately vigorous surface fire with a moderate to fast rate of spread. To learn more about wildfire rank, please visit our webpage here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/.../about-wildfire/wildfire-rank.

Highway 97 and Highway 97C are both closed. Visit https://www.drivebc.ca/ for updates.

For further updates on this incident, visit the wildfire webpage: https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2025&incidentNumber=K51121&source=map

06/13/2025

Pay attention to fire danger ratings and fire bans out there 👌

05/26/2025

Tis the season!

Effective at 12:00 noon Pacific Time on Friday, May 30, 2025, Category 3 open fire will be prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire Centre.

A Category 3 open fire refers to any fire that burns:
- Material concurrently in 3 or more piles, each not exceeding 2 metres in height and 3 metres in width
- Material in one or more piles, each exceeding 2 metres in height or 3 metres in width
- One or more windrows, not exceeding 200 metres in length or 15 metres in width
- Stubble or grass over an area exceeding 0.2 hectares (2,000 square metres)

Also prohibited is the following equipment and activities:
- Air curtain burners
- Carbonizers

For full details, please visit: https://blog.gov.bc.ca/bcwildfire/category-3-open-fire-to-be-prohibited-in-the-southeast-fire-centre/

For all fire prohibitions and restrictions, please visit: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/prevention/fire-bans-and-restrictions

05/07/2025

Great job to the Aecon crew earning their S100/185 this week!

04/04/2025

Check out this series on wildfires in BC!

03/08/2025

Personal wildfire protection

03/07/2025

02/25/2025

Seating still available for our upcoming S100/185