Firefighters battling wildfires in British Columbia are trying to stop flames that swept through West Kelowna suburbs and forced the evacuation of Kelowna’s University of British Columbia campus
that swept through West Kelowna suburbs and forced the evacuation of the University of British Columbia campus in Kelowna.
Officials said Friday evening that about 19,000 people had left Yellowknife in less than 48 hours, with about 15,000 driving out in convoys and 3,800 leaving on emergency flights. “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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