Three local youth are lucky to have walked away from a serious car accident largely unscathed on the first day of the new year after the driver lost control, causing the car to hit an embankment and flip over on Meadows Drive in Oliver.
The Oliver Fire Department (OFD) presented a cheque to the Knights of Columbus yesterday in the amount of $1,500 raised at last weekend’s 11th annual Drive-Thru Breakfast at the Oliver Firehall.
The Oliver Fire Department responded to multiple reports of a brush fire in the area of Hemlock St. and Pine Ave. on Sept. 9 at approximately 5:22 p.m.
The Oliver Volunteer Fire Department (OFD) could soon be designated a Full Service operation following updates to provincial training standards. Amongst the changes this would enable the department to enter “complex structures” to fight fires.
The children of Richard and Colleen Baptiste have started a GoFundMe campaign after their parents lost their family home in a fire on Thursday off of Radio Tower Road.
Osoyoos Fire Rescue along with assistance from the Oliver Fire Department is responding to a structure and brush fire north of the Cottages on Osoyoos Lake.
A multiple vehicle accident on Hwy. 97 at the south end of Vaseux Lake backed up traffic towards Oliver in the early afternoon today (July 3) with the Oliver Fire Department (OFD) classifying it as a “mass causality incident (MCI)”.
A mock-mass casualty event was staged by the Oliver Fire Department (OFD) and BC Emergency Health Services (BC Ambulance) on June 27 with the help of the Oliver Ambassadors and members of the local 232 Bighorn Squadron Air Cadets.
The Oliver Fire Department (OFD) was called to a report of a grass fire along the Okanagan River canal near Road 22 in the evening of Monday, June 9.
The Oliver Fire Department (OFD) celebrated its firefighters dedicated to the safety of Oliver the rural district with the department’s annual awards and recognition night.
The Oliver Fire Department responded today (Friday, Jan. 24) at 4:17 p.m. to reports of a single family residence on Hwy. 97 in the vicinity of Road 1.
The Oliver Fire Department (OFD) responded to a structure fire at approx. 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, in the area of Brauns Rd and Hwy 97 south of Vaseux Lake.
The Oliver Fire Department is set for another year of delivering decibels of holiday cheer throughout the neighbourhoods of Oliver with its annual Christmas Caroling Firetruck event.
By Times Chronicle Staff The Oliver Fire Department (OFD) is advising the public that the BC...
Oliver residents may have spotted a dense plumb of white smoke on Sunday morning which the Oliver Fire Department (OFD) says resulted from a fire at a homeless encampment on the Okanagan River Channel.
The Oliver Fire Department raised a total of $1,500 for Oliver’s Starfish Pack Program at its 10th Annual Drive-Thru Breakfast on Saturday morning (Nov. 23).
Firefighters from both Oliver and Osoyoos will be busy on Saturday with fundraising events supporting local charitable programs.
The Oliver Fire Department has been busy this month practicing responding to extractions from burning vehicles and also honing their Rapid Intervention Teams (RIT) skills.
The Oliver Fire Department responded to a brushfire last week off Fairview Rd and Knippleberg with the cause of the fire attributed to Fireworks.
Lockers, radios, and more training are a few things the town is looking to get for the Oliver Fire Department.
A man has been issued a “hefty fine” after lighting a campfire that quickly got away from him, according to the RCMP.
A wildfire on Anarchist Mountain on Monday saw a large response from half a dozen South Okanagan fire departments after the South Okanagan Task Force (SOTF) was activated over concerns about how the fire might grow.
The Oliver Fire Department says new wording around reporting for duty while under the influence is not a result of members’ actions.