About 90 per cent of residents in the District of Summerland are returning home after the district downgraded an evacuation order to an alert at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
The change allows residents to return to close to 3,400 properties, while 530 properties remain under evacuation order, according to the district. Most of those are in the Garnet Valley, Prairie Valley and Meadow Valley areas.
The following addresses remain under evacuation order:
- All addresses on Garnet Valley Road north of Jones Flat Road
- 12406 Blagborne Ave.
- 12407 Blagborne Ave.
- 11709 Mott St.
- 13420 Mott St.
- 13221 Durick Ave.
- 13410 Durick Ave.
- 14423 Cartwright Ave.
- 14605 Cartwright Ave.
- 13611 Cartwright Ave.
- 14612 Garnet Ave.
- 14806 Garnet Ave.
- 14810 Garnet Ave.
The district has set up an evacuee recovery centre at the George Ryga Arts and Cultural Centre for residents with questions or concerns as they return home.
The district said all properties are under a boil-water notice.
An estimated 150 structures were damaged or destroyed in the wildfire, Regional EOC director Graham Statt said. About 40 are in the District of Summerland, with the remainder in surrounding rural areas, including Faulder and Meadow Valley, he said.
