Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires. [10]On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) [11] [12] and sent people fleeing for their lives.
The River Great Ouse (/ uː z / ooz) is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire , the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wash and the North Sea near Kings Lynn .
0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point. It was British Columbia's largest recorded wildfire until it was surpassed in size by the Chelaslie River fire in 2014. [3]
Great Toronto Fire: Toronto Ontario: Apr 1904: $13 million [2] Fire in Trois-Rivières: Trois-Rivières Quebec: Jun 1908: $2 million [2] Fire in Fernie: Fernie British Columbia: Aug 1908: $4 million: Most of the town was destroyed. [2] Great Porcupine Fire: Timmins Ontario: Jul 1911: 73 to 200: 199,915 hectares (494,000 acres) Matheson Fire ...
HWF-030, named the Paskwa Fire, was another out-of-control fire that spread eastward due to extreme conditions. It reached an active burning area of 35,285 hectares (87,191 acres). It was within the community of Fox Lake, and was 13 kilometres from the community of Garden River. The fire remained south of the Peace River.
A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake. The fire was held, but required 70 firefighters and three helicopters and forced the precautionary closure of nearby Sooke Potholes Regional Park. [41] [42] On July 28, BC Wildfire Services reported 372 fires, classifying 177 as out of control. [43]
Wildfires over British Columbia and northern Washington on August 8 . By the end of June 2018, there had been more than 560 wildfires in British Columbia. [3] The Comstock Lake fire, discovered on June 21, was caused by lightning. By July 6, it had grown to 27.5 square kilometres (10.6 sq mi) and was not fully contained. [4]
Over two hundred fires were ablaze across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. [1] Tens of thousand of people had been evacuated and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned. [2] Fire-fighters from Mexico, [3] Western Australia, [2] and New Zealand were sent to assist. [3] The Canadian military also fought the ...