Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year — contributing to choking smoke in parts of the U.S.
Around 30,000 people were under orders Saturday to evacuate their homes in western Canada's British Columbia, provincial officials said, as a raging wildfire bore down on the city of Kelowna.
"The situation is highly dynamic and the numbers are changing all the time, but as of now we are currently hovering at about 30,000 people on evacuation order and an additional 36,000 people on evacuation alert," said Bowinn Ma, British Columbia's minister of emergency management and climate readiness.
On Thursday air evacuations began to move residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories out of the path of People in the four areas of Yellowknife at highest risk should leave as soon as possible and residents in other areas have until noon Friday to leave, the Northwest Territories government said on Thursday., citing a Friday federal update.
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