KELOWNA, Canada -- Wildfires bore down on two Canadian cities Friday, with firefighters in the west bracing for another “scary”
KELOWNA, Canada — Wildfires bore down on two Canadian cities Friday, with firefighters in the west bracing for another “scary” night as stunned refugees from the far north began arriving at shelters after their entire city was evacuated.
The announcement came as the fire burning west of Kelowna, a town of 150,000 people in the Okanagan Valley, exploded a hundred fold in size to 6,800 hectares over the past day. “It was like 100 years of firefighting all at once, in one night,” he said, adding that he expected “another scary night tonight” under an eerie glow of the fires.
The nearest evacuation center is 1,150 kilometers away, in Alberta, where several sites have been set up. But “we don’t know about tomorrow,” he added. “About our lives, our jobs. You don’t know if everything will be the same tomorrow.”
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