UPDATE: Interior Health responds to further impacts from Lower East Adams Lake Wildfire

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Chase, BC - Interior Health (IH) is responding to additional fire-related impacts to a seniors care facility in Chase.

Parkside Community is on evacuation alert due to the Lower East Adams Lake Wildfire and Interior Health has evacuated the site. Fifty-three individuals in assisted living care were moved to appropriate alternate facilities in Kamloops and the surrounding area during the evening of Aug. 18. Interior Health has been in the process of contacting families directly to update them on the location of their loved one.

UPDATE: Interior Health responds to further impacts from McDougall Creek and Clifton /McKinley wildfires

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Interior Health (IH) is responding to additional fire-related impacts to seniors care facilities in the Kelowna/West Kelowna area.

To ensure the safety of individuals in care as well as the staff and physicians supporting them, IH is working with partners and has recommended its care facility partners evacuate the following locations:

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Helping our most vulnerable babies with donated breast milk

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When Dallas had her son eight years ago, she quickly realized she had more milk than she her son needed to thrive.

“I knew there were babies who could really benefit from my donated breast milk,” says Dallas, a public health nurse at Interior Health. “I have donated more than 20 litres of expressed breast milk to the milk bank. I got the idea from my own mom, who also donated when I was born prematurely at BC Women’s Hospital in 1985.

Interior Health responds to McDougall Creek Wildfire

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Interior Health is responding to fire-related impacts to health facilities and clients in West Kelowna.

Brookhaven Care Centre is not currently on evacuation order as a result of the McDougall Creek Wildfire, however, given its close proximity to the evacuation order area and out of an abundance of caution, Interior Health has evacuated the site. 95 individuals in care are being moved to appropriate alternate facilities in the Kelowna and Summerland areas. Interior Health is contacting families directly to update them on the location of their loved one.