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Churchill Falls, the company town that operates the second-largest hydroelectric dam in Canada (Churchill Falls Generating Station), was evacuated on June 19. [59] The power plant continued to operate with a skeleton staff, until they were forced to evacuate on June 25 after a fire jumped the Churchill River. [59] The evacuation was lifted on ...
On July 6, 2017, a two-hectare wildfire began west of 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada marking the beginning of the record-breaking 2017 wildfire season in British Columbia. [3] On July 7, 56 new fires started throughout British Columbia (BC) leading to several evacuation alerts, orders and the declaration of a provincial state of ...
2021 June 25 – 2021 July 7: Western Canada Heatwave: Heatwave Western Canada Prairies and West Coast 685 Deadliest weather event in the history of Canada 2021 June 30 Lytton wildfire: Wildfire Lytton, British Columbia West Coast 2 Several Over 90% of Lytton destroyed [46] 2021 November 14 British Columbia Floods: Floods lower half of British ...
Also known as the Lava Canyon fire, this was the largest fire in BC in 2009. Started on 31 July by lightning, this fire made news when it threatened a wild horse population. [51] 2010: 98,842 acres (40,000 ha) Binta Lake Fire: British Columbia: BC's largest blaze of 2010, resulted in evacuation orders and alerts. Burned 70,000 acres in a 12 ...
On July 11, a 9-year-old boy in 100 Mile House, B.C., died after suffering an asthma attack worsened by wildfire smoke. [218] On July 13, a firefighter for the B.C. Wildfire Service was killed by a falling tree. [219] [220] On July 15, a firefighter for the Northwest Territories Forest Management Service died when he was struck by a falling ...
The Tugwell Creek fire near Sooke grew to 85 hectares (210 acres), and was 10% contained by July 4. [6] The fire threatened millions of honeybees at Tugwell Creek Honey Farm and Meadery. It was fully contained on July 9. [7] The Shovel Fire, started on July 27, burned at least 86,397 hectares (213,490 acres), and was still active as of August 20.
A fire restriction started in effect. [11] As for July 10, the wildfire hazard dropped because of rain. [12] By October 31, HLWMA had 333 wildfires and totalled 1,773 wildfires recorded, which was such a large figure that only had been exceeded twice since 1990, with 491,802 hectares burned. [7] [13]
On July 23, it was reported that the south fire was 12 km (7.5 mi) from the townsite with an estimated size of 6,750 hectares, while the north fire was estimated to be 270 hectares in size. [ 6 ] On July 23, service on the CN Rail main transcontinental line through Jasper was suspended, with CN sending one of its firefighting trains to the town ...