{"id":5502,"date":"2024-08-05T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T10:25:38","slug":"evacuation-ordered-in-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/evacuation-ordered-in-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation Ordered in B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"0441e468-e9b7-4a8f-8031-588aa795afa6\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p>Authorities in British Columbia have issued an evacuation order for an area north of where the Chilcotin River meets the Fraser River, due to the risk of flooding caused by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on Sunday night, officials from the Cariboo Regional District announced that residents must evacuate immediately. Those choosing to stay are doing so at their own risk.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuation zone spans 3.5 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a significant landslide occurred at Farwell Canyon, about 22 kilometres south of Williams Lake, blocking the Chilcotin River and forming an 11-kilometre-long lake behind the slide. On Sunday, B.C.&#8217;s Emergency Management Department warned that water could begin flowing over the landslide site within hours.<\/p>\n<p>The department has advised people to avoid the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers due to the ongoing threat from the landslide.<\/p>\n<p>The River Forecast Centre has issued flood warnings for the Chilcotin River both upstream and downstream of the landslide near Farwell Canyon. Additionally, a flood watch is in effect for the Fraser River from the confluence with the Chilcotin River downstream to Hope, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in British Columbia have issued an evacuation order for an area north of where the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":5503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[398,499],"tags":[2182,1079,2186,2184,2195,2190,2183,2188,2192,2193,2187,2185,2194,2191,2189],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-b-c-landslide","tag-british-columbia","tag-cariboo-regional-district","tag-chilcotin-river","tag-emergency-evacuation","tag-emergency-management-department","tag-evacuation-order","tag-farwell-canyon","tag-flood-warnings","tag-flood-watch","tag-flooding-risk","tag-fraser-river","tag-natural-disaster","tag-river-forecast-centre","tag-williams-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}