Flooding in B.C.’s Interior has destroyed one home and forced several others to be evacuated, according to the local fire chief.
Evacuation orders are now in place for five properties in the Village of Cache Creek, B.C., where a local state of emergency was declared on May 1 as the nearby creek and river threatened homes in the area and posed an “imminent threat to people and property.”
On Tuesday, the B.C. River Forecast Centre issued a flood warning for the Cache Creek, the Bonaparte River and the surrounding area.
Cache Creek fire chief Tom Moe says one of the very first homes to be placed under an evacuation order earlier this week is “a
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