Search for missing person launched following last week's landslide near West Kelowna

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A monolithic 90-metre descent unopen down the roadworthy to Vernon, adjacent the Lake Okangan Resort, connected April 1.

Massive 90-metre descent unopen down roadworthy to Vernon, adjacent Lake Okangan Resort, connected April 1

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· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 6:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

An aerial changeable of debris covering a roadworthy successful 2 abstracted spots.

RCMP accidental 1 idiosyncratic is missing pursuing a brace of landslides adjacent West Kelowna past week.

On April 1, 2 landslides, including a monolithic 90-metre slide, unopen down a road northbound of Lake Okanagan Resort betwixt Vernon and West Kelowna.

At the time, nary injuries were reported.

But connected Monday, April 7, West Kelowna RCMP said they were opening a missing idiosyncratic probe for an idiosyncratic past seen successful the country of the slide.

"Police successful that country person located unsocial items associated to the missing idiosyncratic and [Central Okanagan Search and Rescue] will beryllium continuing the hunt for further items contiguous oregon time morning," it said Monday successful a statement.

WATCH | Landslides adjacent roadworthy betwixt Vernon, West Kelowna:

Landslide closes the lone nonstop roadworthy betwixt Vernon and West Kelowna

A debris descent successful the cardinal Okanagan has closed disconnected the lone nonstop roadworthy moving betwixt Vernon and West Kelowna. As Brady Strachan reports, it happened on steep slopes wherever a wildfire burned trees and vegetation 2 years ago.

Officials say the country of the descent was "significantly impacted" by the 2023 McDougall Creek Wildfire, arsenic "properties located successful the post-wildfire areas are taxable to a higher hazard of imaginable debris travel runout and upstream diversion.