A devastating wildfire near Kelowna, B.C., appears to have jumped Okanagan Lake, triggering evacuations of a university and bringing added pressure to already strained firefighters.
A devastating wildfire near Kelowna, B.C, appears to have jumped Okanagan Lake, triggering evacuations of a university and bringing added pressure to already strained firefighters.
“I’ve been in BC Wildfire Service my entire career, over 20 years, and there's only a few dates that stick out for me as dates that will always be engraved in my head. Yesterday was one of those days,” Chapman said Friday. BC Hydro’s Chris O’Riley said that has contributed to some outages but that the province’s electricity “backbone” was still intact.
Across the province, more than 4,500 people have been placed on evacuation order, and another 23,500 people remain on evacuation alert, said Bowinn Ma, minister of emergency management and climate readiness. That's led to devastating fires across all parts of the country, from Nova Scotia to Quebec and Alberta. In the Northwest Territories, the capital Yellowknife is evacuating its more than 20,000 residents, some of whom have been arriving at Vancouver International Airport in recent days.
But at least one B.C. opposition politician said the province isn’t doing enough to back communities threatened by wildfire. On Friday, Conservative MLA John Rustad called on the B.C. government to declare a state of emergency “And that is one of the reasons why we are gearing up to be able to go into a formal declaration or provincial state of emergency if required,” she added.
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