Post by Soundy on Aug 22, 2003 22:12:40 GMT -5
For those looking for good news coverage, you can always catch the Global National News with Kevin Newman. It's a Vancouver-based broadcast and tonight they dedicated fully half of the half-hour segment to the BC fires, and 90% of that to Kelowna specifically.
Those that have digital satellite can also probably pick up the BC feeds from CTV and CBC.
We were at our family cabin at Eagan Lake for the long weekend, when the McLure/Barriere fire was at its worst, and being potentially in the path of that fire, we found CBC Radio One to have by far the best ONGOING coverage (it's still a concern as the fire moves toward Bonaparte Lake, but since it's in a lagely uninhabited area now, it doesn't see much news coverage).
Even with a dialup connection, you should be able to get CBC's streaming feed from vancouver.cbc.ca, as well as excellent ongoing coverage on the website itself.
For official information, you can visit the Provincial Emergency Program's site at www.pep.bc.ca, the Ministry of Forest's site at www.for.gov.bc.ca, and for the most recent updates of aerial fire maps, try 207.102.122.235/awisweb/
As someone else noted though, castanet.net is possibly the best single site for information on the Kelowna fire.
Note: I have tonight's Global National and local Global 6:00pm coverage recorded in VideoCD (MPEG-1) format, if someone with a broadband connection is really *in need* of the information (I'm only on cable myself, so I'm not gonna send 200MB video files to everybody and his dog... sorry).
soundy@moltenimage.com
Those that have digital satellite can also probably pick up the BC feeds from CTV and CBC.
We were at our family cabin at Eagan Lake for the long weekend, when the McLure/Barriere fire was at its worst, and being potentially in the path of that fire, we found CBC Radio One to have by far the best ONGOING coverage (it's still a concern as the fire moves toward Bonaparte Lake, but since it's in a lagely uninhabited area now, it doesn't see much news coverage).
Even with a dialup connection, you should be able to get CBC's streaming feed from vancouver.cbc.ca, as well as excellent ongoing coverage on the website itself.
For official information, you can visit the Provincial Emergency Program's site at www.pep.bc.ca, the Ministry of Forest's site at www.for.gov.bc.ca, and for the most recent updates of aerial fire maps, try 207.102.122.235/awisweb/
As someone else noted though, castanet.net is possibly the best single site for information on the Kelowna fire.
Note: I have tonight's Global National and local Global 6:00pm coverage recorded in VideoCD (MPEG-1) format, if someone with a broadband connection is really *in need* of the information (I'm only on cable myself, so I'm not gonna send 200MB video files to everybody and his dog... sorry).
soundy@moltenimage.com