Evacuation order issued for parts of Osoyoos, B.C., as growing wildfire crosses Canada-U.S. border

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The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen and Town of Osoyoos issued an evacuation order Saturday evening for 732 properties in and around Osoyoos as a response to an out-of-control fire that has reached over the U.S.-Canada border.

The Eagle Bluff fire is burning about four kilometres from the town of Osoyoos in B.C.’s southern Interior and is considered to be a wildfire of note. 

Previous wildfire updates called the Canadian side as the Lone Pine Creek fire. But both sides of the wildfire are now being referred to as the Eagle Bluff fire. 

The evacuation order covers the area north of the border to the intersection of Highway 97 and Highway 3,

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