Fire officials in British Columbia are warning of a 'challenging' 24 hours ahead as they predict wildfires will grow rapidly and endanger more areas.
This handout photo shows the town of Fort Smith, Canada, during the wildfires, on Aug. 13, 2023.
This August 13, 2023, image provided by Sylvia Webster shows smoke rising from wildfires near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.High winds in western Canada have been contributing to the spread of the flames, officials said. Several B.C. towns and cities have issued evacuation orders and alerts over the wildfires.
A local state of emergency was issued for the city of West Kelowna, a portion of Westbank First Nation and the Central Okanagan West Electoral Thursday. Sixty-eight properties located off Bear Creek Road were ordered to evacuate.Residents of Yellowknife, Hay River and Fort Smith were also ordered to evacuate this week because of the fires.
This handout satellite image courtesy of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 sattelite taken on Aug. 16, 2023, shows fires burning in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.Chapman warned that 28 of B.C.'s 34 water basins continue to be operating at worst or second-worst drought levels while fighting the blazes.
"So the drought situation is serious in British Columbia...and the impacts of drought conditions in certain B.C. watersheds will be serious as well," he said.
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