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Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency as 15,000 homes evacuate – BBC News

Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency as 15,000 homes evacuate - BBC News

About 15,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada’s British Columbia, as firefighters battle raging wildfires that have set homes ablaze.

Officials said a "significant" number of buildings 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 for the entire province, where hundreds of separate fires are burning.

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