KELOWNA: Forest fires in Canada’s western province of British Columbia intensified further on Saturday, doubling the number of people under evacuation...
British Columbia had experienced strong winds and dry lightning in the past few days due to a cold mass of air interacting with hot air built up in the sultry summer.The McDougall Creek wildfire burns next to houses in the Okanagan community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Eby said the province is in dire need of shelter for evacuees and firefighters and ordered a ban on non-essential travel to make more temporary accommodation available. By Friday, an out-of-control fire in southern British Columbia grew more than a hundredfold in 24 hours and forced more than 2,400 properties to be evacuated. The fire was centred around Kelowna, a city some 300km east of Vancouver, with a population of about 150,000.
TransCanada is the main east-west artery used by thousands of motorists and road freight heading to Port of Vancouver, the country’s busiest. The fires have drained local resources and drawn in federal government assistance as well as support from 13 countries. At least four firefighters have died in the line of duty.About 140,000sqkm of land, roughly the size of New York state, have already burned, and government officials project the fire season could stretch into autumn due to widespread drought-like conditions in Canada.
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