Polderman began reaching out to confirm the severity of the fire and, after connecting with the RCMP, was told officers were already evacuating residents from Fraser Street. Shortly after, he contacted the Thompson-Nicola Regional District to notify he was ordering a full evacuation of the village. Lytton set three straight days of temperature records in late June, capping off the streak by recording the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, at 49.6 C. Those hot conditions were preceded by three months of exceptionally dry weather. Typically, Lytton receives about 20 millimetres of rain in April and May and about 18 millimetres in June. But this year had been bone dry, with the village s weather station reading just 1.4 millimetres of precipitation in April, 7.5 millimetres in May and only a half-millimetre in June.
A wildfire has destroyed 90% of this town Indigenous communities have been hit the hardest
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A wildfire has destroyed 90% of this town Indigenous communities have been hit the hardest
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The British Columbia wildfires are growing so large they can create wild firestorms as heat and fumes rise up the sky from the burning Canada.
These firestorms composed of pyrocumulonimbus clouds created by intense heat from the Earth s surface was believed to generate its own weather including dangerous fire tornadoes and create a cycle of ferocious fires.
In Lytton, British Columbia, the fire has burned a large area of the village with temperatures hitting 121.2 degrees Fahrenheit - 49.5 degrees Celsius - as of Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 31: A large mushroom cloud from the Station Fire is seen above Angeles National Forest as the blaze marches westward towards the communities of Sunland and Tujanga on August 31, 2009.
Hundreds who died from heat exposure in B C mostly seniors found alone in unventilated suites, says coroner
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