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2021-07-15 03:00:35 GMT2021-07-15 11:00:35(Beijing Time) Sina English AFP This handout photo courtesy of BC Wildfire Service shows two plumes of smoke from the Long Loch wildfire and the Derrickson Lake wildfire (K51041), British Columbia, Canada, on June 30. More than a million acres of the western US and Canada were in flames on Wednesday as multiple blazes raged across the region, fueled by soaring temperatures and drought, and with little sign of letting up. Large areas of California were placed on red alert as several conflagrations continued to burn. The so-called River Fire had still not been brought under control as it burned near Yosemite National Park, officials said. ....
As Haugen laid down the last sprinkler, he noticed flames crawling up his lawn. “I thought about aiming the sprinkler, but then I saw this big wall of fire,” he said on Friday. Abandoning his home at last, he jumped into his truck and raced through town, “fire biting at my heels.” As he drove down Main Street, something exploded, sending pieces of shrapnel raining down on the road. Haugen went south to the Siska First Nation, where he is staying with his nephew. His wife and her mother took the highway north to Lillooet. Other Lytton residents scattered to Merritt, Kamloops and Chilliwack, as fire crews continued to battle the Lytton Creek fire, which had grown to 68 square kilometres on Friday. ....
4 Lectura: ( palabras) La letal ola de calor que azota Canadá y que afecta a la costa este de Estados Unidos que ha dejado temperaturas de casi 50º sigue cobrándose consecuencias. Después de la pérdida de cultivos, los heridos y los fallecidos por el calor extremo, Lytton, la ciudad que ha alcanzado la temperatura más alta de Canadá, 49, 5º, ha sido completamente consumida por un incendio en menos de 15 minutos. Todo comenzó con El alcalde de Lytton, Jan Polderman emitió la orden de evacuación el miércoles (hora local) y dijo en Twitter que el incendio amenazaba las estructuras y la seguridad de los residentes de la comunidad, que se encuentra a 153 kilómetros al noreste de Vancouver. Se aconseja a todos los residentes que abandonen la comunidad y vayan a un lugar seguro , dijo Polderman. ....