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What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 8
A state of emergency was declared by the District of Summerland just after 10:30 p.m. PT Friday due to the rapidly growing Bald Range wildfire. Around 20,000 people have been ordered to evacuate in the area as a result of the fire.
What you need to know about B.C. wildfires on Aug. 6
The B.C. Wildfire Service is expecting more fire activity with dry and warm weather ahead, and possible lightning.
The B.C. Wildfire Service has attributed the "vast majority" of the 100+ new 🔥 #BCwildfires to 4,000 🌩️lightning strikes on Fri July 17th.
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca#BCwildfires and lighting storms have been quite unnerving for several years here: as high as 200-400+ active wildfires on a given B.C. Summer day.
This B.C. Summer seemed to be a relief -- until last Friday's rolling ⛈️ thunder & lighting yielding 100 more fires.
Not surprised of any correlation or cause by climate change given increasing trend of intensity & frequency of wildfires & lighting storms.
Ongoing issues wrt potential water pollution and sleeper fires (aka zombie fires).
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