REVELSTOKE (Canada) — Canada is sending armed forces to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday (Aug 20), as the western province deals with flames that have put more than 35,000 people under evacuation order.
British Columbia declared a state of emergency and imposed a ban on non-essential travel to free up accommodations for evacuees and firefighters, and urged drone operators and others capturing images of the fires to stay clear of the rescue workers.
Forest fires are not uncommon in Canada but the spread of blazes and disruptions underscore the severity of its worst wildfire season yet, which some experts have blamed on climate change. In Canada, government officials urged residents living in evacuation order zones to leave immediately to save their lives and prevent firefighters from dying trying to save them.
The Coquihalla stretch of the pipeline expansion, southwest of Kamloops, is the closest to the fire zone. About 140,000 square kilometres of land, roughly the size of New York state, have already been scorched nationwide, with smoky haze extending as far as the US East Coast. Government officials project that the fire season could stretch into autumn due to widespread drought-like conditions.Some 2,000km to the north, a wildfire burning out of control in Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories, had triggered evacuations of almost all of its 20,000 residents last week.
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