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Vancouver rundown for Friday, August 1st, 2025.

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Crews continue to contend with a growing number

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of wildfires around B .C. An out -of -control

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Vancouver Island fire has prompted an evacuation

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order for some properties on the north side of

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Cameron Lake. Highway 4 remains open between

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Nanaimo and Port Alberni for now. Meanwhile,

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the Bear Creek wildfire next to Harrison Lake

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has grown to nearly 100 hectares. Some forestry

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roads in the area are closed to campers. Tourists

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are still able to visit Harrison Hot Springs.

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And several new lightning -sparked wildfires

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are burning in Washington State, just south of

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the Canadian Okanagan. Smoke is visible from

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Asuyus. Some parts of the southern B .C. interior

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have had lightning strikes late Thursday and

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early Friday morning. Other news, police blame

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Speed & Booze in part for a deadly motorcycle

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crash in Abbotsford. A rider died after colliding

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with an SUV on Highway 11 near Township Line

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Road early Thursday morning. That crash closed

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the roads for several hours. B .C.'s opposition

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critic for the Attorney General's ministry is

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slamming the E .B. government. for not including

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Surrey's extortion crisis in the mandate letters

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to two NDP cabinet ministers. Richmond, Queensborough

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conservative MLA Steve Cooner says the mandate

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letters are supposed to outline priorities, but

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notes the extortion cases aren't even mentioned.

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Surrey and several other B .C. cities continue

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to deal with arsons and shootings related to

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the extortion of some business leaders in the

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South Asian community. Donnie Van Dyke has been

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named Vancouver's new city manager. He's making

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the move from the same job in Delta. Before that,

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he was city manager in Penticton. The new role

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has him responsible for Vancouver's 9 ,600 employees

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and $2 .3 billion annual operating budget. Cloudy

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in the morning, but otherwise clearing by Friday

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afternoon. Inland highs near 27 degrees. Sunshine

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for Saturday and Sunday. For all the details

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on these local Vancouver area stories, along

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with those links, go to VancouverRundown .substack

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.com.