About 30,000 people ordered to evacuate as wildfires rage in Canada's British Columbia
Posted on AllSides August 19th, 2023
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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...