Ashcroft Fire Rescue

Ashcroft Fire Rescue Volunteer Fire Department

07/27/2026

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07/27/2026

Evacuation order expanded to 70 Mile House Monday morning

Dust or fire? In this case, its dust! It comes from a local mine site. On windy days its not uncommon for Ashcroft fire ...
07/25/2026

Dust or fire? In this case, its dust! It comes from a local mine site. On windy days its not uncommon for Ashcroft fire to get called to this. Thanks to all who have reached out to us asking about this. Within the last hour 2 calls have come onto forestry in regards to this pile. We appreciate everyone's vigilance, Keep up the great work!

This is highly visible to the east from highway 97c as you come into Ashcroft from the North. This can also be seen from a large part of North Ashcroft, Desert hills and beyond to Rattlesnake and cozy road.

07/25/2026

The wildfire situation in the region is changing rapidly, but there is still no threat to the Village of Ashcroft.

The many offers of support to evacuees are greatly appreciated, and show the generosity that is all around. At this time there is no central place where those who have space for RVs or livestock can be ‘matched’ with people who need them, but feel free to post on social media channels if you can help someone.

The Dept. of Highways is instituting a ‘hard’ closure of Highway 97 from the junction with Loon Lake Road north to Chasm. The area from just north of Loon Lake Road to approximately Six Mile Lake that was on evacuation alert will be changing to an evacuation order shortly.

Anyone who lives at Loon Lake, along Loon Lake Road, or in the area between there and Cache Creek is still able to travel to and from their property. Please be careful, as crews and equipment are moving along the highway, as are evacuees.

There is no indication of when the highway will reopen. Please check www.drivebc.ca for updates; don’t rely on anecdotal stories on social media.

Be careful with social media, full stop. On Thursday someone was reporting that they ‘knew’ that 50 to 100 properties around Big Bar Lake were destroyed by the Fiftynine Creek wildfire. THIS IS NOT CORRECT. Officials from the TNRD were able to travel to the area and confirmed that as of Thursday, a total of 20 properties suffered damage, and not all of the damage involved homes or cabins. All of the property owners have been notified personally.

Your local government is a reliable source of information, as is the BC Wildfire Service website. EmergencyInfoBC is another good site to go to for information, and evacuees should use the Evacuee Registration and Assistance tool at ess.gov.bc.ca.

BC Hydro’s Kelly Lake substation is threatened by the Pear Lake wildfire. At 9 p.m. on Thursday, BC Hydro issued a statement noting that ‘Customers across B.C. may be experiencing flickering lights, power interruptions, and fluctuations in power due to wildfire activity near Kelly Lake affecting transmission lines.’

The substation at Kelly Lake supplies electricity to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island from the Peace River hydroelectric system. BC Hydro says that the Pear Lake fire has caused an increase in transmission trips, resulting in momentary power disturbances, but that conditions prevent safe access to the area. BC Hydro is continuing to monitor the situation.

Stay calm, stay safe, and be kind.

Good evening all. Ashcroft Fire is aware of the burning remains of an RV out in the Juniper Beach area out on highway 1,...
07/21/2026

Good evening all.

Ashcroft Fire is aware of the burning remains of an RV out in the Juniper Beach area out on highway 1, roughly 18 km east of Cache Creek.

Unfortunately, this fire is well out of our fire response area. We were paged out to this call earlier on in the day, it came in as a multi vehicle incident with one vehicle possibly on fire. We rolled out with our rescue and a tender but we stood down when it was confirmed no entrapment and everyone was safely out of the vehicle.

So why didn’t we go and put the fire out?

Simply put, we have boundaries.

We know, it’s not really a sexy answer, but it’s the truth. Locally, within these boundaries, we refer to it as our fire protection area. Within the fire protection area we cover the Village of Ashcroft, The Ashcroft Indian Band, The Ashcroft Ranch, the Ashcroft Terminal, Koppers Treating, an outlying TNRD area and a mutual Aid agreement with Cache Creek. All of these places and the residents of Ashcroft are paying for fire protection.

Unfortunately, where this RV burnt down there is no protection out at that location.

Now it’s important to note, it’s not just Ashcroft that has boundaries. No matter how big or small the community is, we all have our boundaries.

Currently, Ashcroft Fire has 18 people on the roster, with 12 being dedicated to regular practices. We responded with 5 today leaving a few in town. Remember, it’s summer and even firefighters like to take holidays. With that being said, as soon as we knew that there was no entrapment our first and foremost responsibility always comes back to the community and the area we protect.

Another way of looking at it would be something like this:

A few years ago we lost two homes in a little over 7 minutes to fire. Could you imagine what it would have been like if your fire department was out of town? Having to travel back to Ashcroft 30km on a highway, and our response time was 20 to 25 minutes. There would definitely be some explaining to do! This my friends is why your local fire department has designated fire response boundaries.

We hope this has answered some of your questions in regards to why the fire is still burning.

Ashcroft Fire was out at Desert Hills Ranch testing out a rather unique fire hydrant within our fire response area last ...
07/09/2026

Ashcroft Fire was out at Desert Hills Ranch testing out a rather unique fire hydrant within our fire response area last week. This hydrant is tied into the ranches irrigation system which means this hydrant is only in service from early March to late October. So for 4 months a year we will go back to our original plan of shuttling water in by tender to our trucks should the need arise. It should also be mentioned that Desert Hills, the awesome community partner that they are, have said that if a structure or grass fire should happen further down the road that we can use their hydrant. This would cut down on our turn around time with our tender by as much as 50%. To the Desert Hills crew, we thank you for adding this extra resource to our firefighting toolbox.

Also we thank you for not having the ice cream portion of your store open that particular night, as our chief is finding it very difficult to resist your mass selection of ice cream...especially the chocolate variety...especially, especially, Rockyroad (so darn good!)🫠🚒❤️🚒

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