Report by Ishal
July 5th, Canada: A wildfire amid a record heat wave in western Canada has forced authorities to order residents to evacuate a village in British Columbia that smashed the country’s record for hottest temperature three days in a row this week.
Wildfires or bushfires are blazes that are uncontrolled and fuelled by different types of weather, dry underbrush, and wind, which burn land by the acres and take over everything in their paths, in just a few minutes.
Erica Berg, a provincial fire information officer, said “The evacuation order was issued about an hour after the blaze began.”
Roughly 1,000 residents of Lytton had to abandon their homes with just a few minutes’ notice on Wednesday evening (local time), after enduring a record high temperature of 49.6 degrees Celsius the day before.