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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 Chilli...

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...

Article content “With respect to our current efforts – in the Lytton area restrictions are in place as it is unsafe for anyone to enter given the significant and ongoing safety hazards. Please respect the closures,” an RCMP statement read. “The decision to limit access is not one made solely by the RCMP.  We are working within a unified command structure. “The situation is being continually assessed and when safe to do so we will be entering the area to conduct a formal search, specifically for any injured or missing people.” The RCMP cannot confirm a family statement made to Pos...

UPDATE: Small wildfires north of Big White are now a combined 300-hectare blaze visible from Kelowna (UPDATE: June 30 @ 4:30 pm) – A pair of small wildfires north of Big White have grown rapidly since this morning, creating a large blaze that is visible from Kelowna. The Derickson Lake fire, which was only three hectares this morning, is now estimated to be a combined 300 hectares by the BC Wildfire Service but excessive smoke has made it hard to determine. The significant growth was aided by the Long Loch fire, which was caused by lightning and only 0.5 hectares when the day began. Both fi...

Wildfires ripped through Lytton, British Columbia, on Wednesday - two days after it broke Canada's temperature record Roughly 1,000 people in and around Lytton fled from their homes as flames engulfed the town in minutes The extent of the damage was revealed on Thursday as officials said 'most homes' and structures were razed Officials said it could take days for the region to be deemed safe enough for first responders to begin searching the wreckage for possible fatalities The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is working to locate an unspecified number of missing residents Dozens of famil...