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By late Thursday, 24 hours after the first alarm, residents of the Village of Lytton and a reserve of the Lytton First Nation in the B.C. interior were still searching for neighbours and relatives, taking stock of what they had lost and searching for answers on what brought such devastation in so little time.
Mike Farnworth, B.C.’s public safety minister, said most homes and buildings in the town of Lytton have been destroyed by a fire that forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people, including the RCMP detachment and ambulance station.
Canadian village devastated by wildfires a day after temperatures topped 121 degrees
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Canada Monster Heat Wave Kills Many, Worse To Come, Say Experts Canada Monster Heat Wave Kills Many, Worse To Come, Say Experts Canada s westernmost province has been scorched for days by record-smashing heat that reached 49.5 degrees Celsius (121 degrees Fahrenheit) in Lytton, three hours northeast of Vancouver, on Tuesday.
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Inside one of Vancouver s 25 air-conditioned cooling centers on Wednesday, visitors quietly read books or worked on laptops as the death toll in Canada s British Columbia province rose into the hundreds from a record-smashing heat wave. We ve had heat waves before, but not to this extent, said Lou, who provided only her first name. I m shocked by how many deaths there have been.