“We fought 100 years of fires all in one night,” West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund told reporters.
Canada’s Heritage Minister, meanwhile, urged Meta to lift its ban on users sharing local news 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.”
Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year that have caused choking smoke in parts of the U.S. All told, there have been more than 5,700 fires, which have burned more than 137,000 square kilometers from one end of Canada to the other, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
Video shot by Todd Ramsay north of Kelowna captured the moment of alarm when nearby trees caught fire, and his family was forced to flee in traffic gridlocked by emergency vehicles and people trying to escape.
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