Wildfires ravaging Canada's British Columbia province are showing some signs of easing and the weather conditions should improve through Monday into Tuesday, through crews are still battling 'epic' blazes, emergency officials said.
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns outside the Okanagan community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada August 18, 2023. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenAug 21 - Wildfires ravaging Canada's British Columbia province are showing some signs of easing and the weather conditions should improve through Monday into Tuesday, through crews are still battling "epic" blazes, emergency officials said.
The air quality index in many fire-affected areas - including Central Okanagan, Eastern Fraser Valley, Kamloops - hit above 10 on Monday, signaling a high risk, the British Columbia government said. About 2,000 km to the north, a wildfire burning out of control in Yellowknife, the capital of Northwest Territories , has turned the remote city into a smoky, ghost town with almost all the of its 20,000 residents evacuated.
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