http://uspoliticsinfo.com/topic/kelowna2010-07-31T22:30:09Z2010-07-31T22:30:09ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-07-31:/photo/waterbomber-crash-2324651p/

FILE -- A Conair water bomber flies past a wildfire burning out of control after dropping fire retardant on the other side of the mountain in <a title="Kelowna" href="/topic/Kelowna" >Kelowna</a>, B.C., in this July 20, 2009 file photo. A waterbomber, similar to the one shown, battling wildfires in the <a title="British Columbia" href="/topic/British+Columbia" >British Columbia</a> interior crashed Saturday July 31, 2010. <a title="Marguerite Dodds-Lepinski" href="/topic/Marguerite+Dodds-Lepins...

2010-04-03T18:08:18ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-03:/photo/climate-09-beetles-smoke-1588407p/

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, a wildfire burns on Terrace Mountain north of <a title="Kelowna" href="/topic/Kelowna" >Kelowna</a>, <a title="British Columbia" href="/topic/British+Columbia" >British Columbia</a>, <a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" >Canada</a>. Beetles and fire, twin plagues, are consuming northern forests in what scientists say is a preview of a warmer future, in which dying, burning forests would then only add to the warming. (AP Photo/<a title="The Canadian Pres...

2010-04-05T23:34:29ZAP Newstag:uspoliticsinfo.com,2010-04-05:/photo/kelowna-fire-1408661p/

Smoke from wildfires rises and hangs in the air at sunset as a boat sails on <a title="Okanagan Lake" href="/topic/Okanagan+Lake" >Lake Okanagan</a> in <a title="Kelowna" href="/topic/Kelowna" >Kelowna</a>, <a title="British Columbia" href="/topic/British+Columbia" >British Columbia</a>, on Sunday July 19, 2009. Thousands of residents were evacuated from their homes as three wildfires burned around Kelowna. AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck) <div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2009...