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• Lithium ion battery suspected cause of Vancouver Island recycling centre fire

  30-06-2026 03:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A damaged lithium ion battery is suspected to have caused a fire that significantly damaged a Parksville area recycling facility on June 24.
  Errington Fire Department was called to the Waste Connections of Canada Springhill Road facility shortly after 8 a.m., according to Chief Steve Ternes, and the fire continued to spread even as firefighters were hitting it with water.
  “If you’ve ever burned paper before, you know that if you pile paper up, it burns, but it’s very slow to bu
  
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• Kelowna riding coach’s fate left to jury for alleged sex crimes, child luring

  30-06-2026 03:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The fate of a Kelowna equestrian coach is in the hands of a jury as submissions in the trial for sexual touching, sexual assault, and child luring came to a close on June 29.
  Sebastien Devrainne, originally from France, has spent the past week sitting in a Kelowna, B.C. Supreme Court for alleged crimes against a former student dating back more than a decade.
  Defence lawyers argued that there has been no evidence to prove that a sexual relationship of any kind took place between Devrainne and the
  
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• Wildfire south of Lillooet burns in dangerous terrain, being monitored: BCWS

  30-06-2026 02:35 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The Riley Creek wildfire south of Lillooet is seeing a modified response due to it burning in unsafe and inaccessible terrain.
  The BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) provided an update about the wildfire on Monday, June 29, at 4:19 p.m.
  The fire (number K70659), was discovered on June 24 and remains out of control and sized at 50 hectares. The suspected cause of the fire is lightning.
  BCWS provided a detailed response update on June 29.
  They say the wildfire is about nine kilometres south of Lillooet an
  
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• B.C. attorney general joins Williams Lake mother’s call for child online safety

  30-06-2026 01:50 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  WARNING: This article contains content that might be distressing for some readers. If you feel like you are in crisis or are considering suicide, please call the Crisis Centre BC suicide hotline at 1-800-784-2433. Other resources include: Canada Suicide Prevention Service at Toll free: 1-833-456-4566, the Crisis Line at 310-6789 or 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433): For suicide prevention and intervention.You can also text 45645 or visit the online chat service at crisisservicescanada.ca
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• PROGRESS 2026: Coulson Aviation’s night vision firefighting helped battle summer fires on Vancouver Island

  30-06-2026 01:30 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  In a historically bad year for wildfires across Canada, B.C. had 1,350 fires with an estimated 886,360 hectares of land burned across the province. When it came to fighting two of the worst fires in Vancouver Island’s history, BC Wildfire Service took advantage of Coulson Aviation’s successful night vision aerial firefighting program.
  Almost 15 years to the day after testing how effective a helicopter could be dropping water on hot spots at night, the Wesley Ridge fire broke out betw
  
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• Escaped inmate from B.C. prison found dead

  30-06-2026 01:15 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) has confirmed that escaped inmate Ernest Egon Jensen, 69, has been found dead.
  In a statement released just after 2 p.m. today (June 29), CSC said Jensen was found “in the ocean off the coast of Metchosin.”
  West Shore RCMP said Jensen’s body was recovered near the shoreline along William Head Institution by the RCMP West Coast Marine Services alongside Metchosin Fire Department.
  “Yesterday, CSC followed escape protocols and issued
  
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• Celebrate Canada Day with baseball and fireworks in Nanaimo

  30-06-2026 01:00 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  This Canada Day people can check out a baseball game and watch fireworks light the skies above Nanaimo.
  Nanaimo NightOwls face Victoria HarbourCats (Thundercats) at Serauxmen Stadium in a Canada Day game beginning at 6:35 p.m., followed by a permitted fireworks show.
  The game is part of the nine annual matches between the two West Coast League rivals that begins on Wednesday, June 24. Historically, Victoria has come out victorious, which means the pressure will be on the NightOwls to come out on
  
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• Truck incident kills Lumby youth

  30-06-2026 00:33 via nanaimobulletin.com
  
  A summer celebration turned tragic in Lumby over the weekend.
  Two pedestrians were hit by a truck on a rural property Saturday shortly before 12 p.m.
  Despite immediate first aid provided by youth witnesses and efforts of paramedics when they arrived, a 15-year-old Lumby youth died.
  A second youth, who was also struck by the pick-up, was transported to hospital by ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.
  The driver of the pick-up truck fled the scene but was later located by police.
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