British Columbia was under a province-wide state of emergency.
A helicopter equipped to respond to wildfires flies past homes in the Wilden neighbourhood near Knox Mountain after RCMP officers enforced a new evacuation order in Kelowna, British Columbia on Aug. 18, 2023.VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Firefighters battling wildfires in British Columbia on Saturday sought to stop flames that swept through West Kelowna suburbs and forced the evacuation of the University of British Columbia campus in Kelowna.
“We fought 100 years of fires all in one night," he said Friday, ahead of another night of battling the flames. There were no reports of deaths but he said “significant number” of structures were destroyed. There were fears that the only escape route could be cut off as about 2,600 people remained behind, including emergency teams, firefighters, utility workers and police officers, along with residents who refused to leave.
“Terrible loss, increased extreme weather events. And all through it, we’ve seen Canadians step up,” he told reporters in Edmonton on Friday. on its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms to facilitate the flow of information to residents in fire-imperiled areas. Pascale St. Onge described Meta's policy, instituted in response to a new law requiring Meta to pay news providers, as “reckless.
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