An RV travelling at full speed down Highway 1 was hit by a falling tree near Chilliwack Tuesday afternoon.
There are no reports of serious injuries and the three occupants of the RV were reported to be walking around with first responders. The Popkum Fire Department responded to the call, which was near the Herrling Island exit in the eastbound lanes. The vehicle is reported to have suffered major damage.
Around the same time, a tree split in two and fell on a parked car on Nowell Street near Chilliwack Central Road.
They were just two of many calls for falling trees around Chilliwack, Hope, and Harrison Hot Springs throughout the early afternoon. There are lines down in multiple neighbourhoods of Chilliwack. In Harrison Hot Springs, a tree fell across Hot Springs Road closing off the community’s only main road in and out.
Several trees and power lines also came down across Chilliwack Lake Road on Tuesday afternoon, about 300m from the roundabout on Vedder Road.
Power outages are happening all across the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland, and in Chilliwack, fire crews were fully dispatched at times across the city.
The wind is expected to die down Tuesday evening.
#BCHwy1 - Vehicle incident involving a tree east of #Chilliwack by Herrling Island has traffic down to a single lane. Crews are en route, expect delays in the area. pic.twitter.com/N2p8kIVYhD
— DriveBC (@DriveBC) October 13, 2020
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