19 minutes agoFires in Canada, evacuate at least 30,000 families
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Some 30,000 families are ordered to evacuate to the British Columbia province of Canada, where about 400 fires are active. Fires have destroyed houses in West Kelowna, a city of 36 thousand people. Travel restrictions also apply to the cities of Kamloops, Oliver, Penticton, Vernon and Osoyoos, the BBC reports. Hundreds of miles north, a fire of [...]
Some 30,000 families are ordered to evacuate to the British Columbia province of Canada, where about 400 fires are active.
Fires have destroyed houses in West Kelowna, a city of 36 thousand people.
Travel restrictions also apply to the cities of Kamloops, Oliver, Penticton, Vernon and Osoyoos, the BBC reports.
Hundreds of miles north, a large fire continues to extend toward the city of Yellowknife.
The official deadline for evacuation of the city ended Friday.
Some 19 thousand of the city's 20,000 inhabitants were evacuated.
Authorities said 39 patients were displaced from a hospital to alternative items Friday night, making them the last people to be evacuated from the city.
