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Fires in Canada: images showing the development of a fire in the province of British Columbia, where a state of emergency has been declared

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Authorities in the western Canadian province of British Columbia have ordered the evacuation of about 15,000 homes where firefighters are fighting wildfires in the area.

A “significant” number of buildings were reported to have caught fire in West Kelowna, a city of 36,000 people, and more than 2,400 homes were evacuated.

A state of emergency has been declared across the province, with hundreds of individual fires burning.

Canada is experiencing an unprecedented wildfire season, with more than 13.7 million hectares already burned, according to official estimates.

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Authorities have issued evacuation orders from areas near the city of Kelowna, where about 150,000 residents live.
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Canada has the worst wildfire season on record, with at least 1,000 fires across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Wildfire Center (CIFFC).
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A Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires spread across the mountainside like an “ominous cloud of destruction”.
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West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund called the wildfire “devastating.” “We fought hard last night to protect our community. We dealt with 100 years of fires in one night,” he added.
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Local officials reported “significant structural losses” in the area, including at Traders Cove, north of West Kelowna.
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A Kelowna resident told the BBC that locals saw the plume of smoke rising up the side of the mountain as “an ominous cloud of destruction”.
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Kelowna residents are accustomed to wildfires due to the “California weather” in the area, but the heat, dryness and wind of the past few days have created ideal conditions for a “firestorm”.
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People line up outside a school in the Northwest Territories city of Yellowknife to register to evacuate as wildfires threaten the city.
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A long line of cars rush to evacuate from Yellowknife.

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