The residents at the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park were evacuated from their homes for several hours last night, May 14, 2015, following the discovery of old sticks of dynamite. Global Okanagan (with permission)

Old dynamite forces evacuation at West Kelowna trailer park

WEST KELOWNA – The bomb squad from Vancouver travelled to West Kelowna last night to blow up some old sticks of dynamite.

RCMP say the explosives were in a backpack found by a resident of the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park at 1860 Boucherie Rd. while he was on a hike.

The man brought the backpack home to the trailer park where he says he discovered the dynamite and called police around 5 p.m., May 15.

Emergency officials evacuated the residents from the 100 units at the trailer park to the Westbank Lions Hall until the bomb squad arrived and safely “disposed” of the sticks of dynamite, RCMP say.

Residents were back in their homes by midnight.

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To contact the reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander at halexander@infonews.ca or call 250-491-0331. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

— This story was updated at 11:25 a.m., Saturday, May 16, 2015 with information from West Kelowna RCMP.

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Howard Alexander

Howard Alexander

Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

If you have an event to share contact Howard at 250-309-5343or email halexander@infonews.ca.

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