INCREDIBLE EXODUS. A helicopter drops water as the McDougall Creek wildfire continues to burn in West Kelowna, British Columbia, on
Sunday. Around 30,000 people were under orders to evacuate their homes in Kelowna in western Canada’s British Columbia, while 36,000 more are on standby alert. AFP
“We cannot stress strongly enough how critical it is to follow evacuation orders when they are issued,” Ma said at an afternoon news conference. Blazes far away in the neighboring Northwest Territories have meanwhile prompted the evacuation of regional capital Yellowknife, leaving the remote city of some 20,000 largely a ghost town.
“My compliments to them all,” Whitford, who is 82 and wheelchair-bound, said of the organizers. “It’s so complex—20,000 people —it’s incredible. It went smoothly.” In British Columbia, blazes have already destroyed several properties in West Kelowna, separated by Okanagan Lake from its larger, eponymous neighbor.
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