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British Columbia Wildfires Intensify, Doubling Evacuations to Over 35,000
Reuters ^ | August 21, 2023 | Chris Helgren and Nia Williams

Posted on 08/23/2023 7:55:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

(This Aug. 19 story has been corrected to rectify the premier's first name to David in paragraph 3)

Forest fires in Canada's western province of British Columbia intensified on Saturday, with the number of people under evacuation orders doubling from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead.

The province declared a state of emergency on Friday to access temporary authoritative powers to tackle fire-related risks, as out-of-control fires ripped through interior British Columbia, partially shutting some sections of a key highway between the Pacific coast and the rest of western Canada, and destroying many properties.

"The current situation is grim," Premier David Eby told reporters on Saturday, saying some 35,000 people were under an evacuation order, and a further 30,000 were under an evacuation alert.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: britishcolumbia; maui; wildfires

1 posted on 08/23/2023 7:55:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Somethings goin’ on people. You can’t blame it all on bad forest management. How hard is it for an army of Chicoms or muslims to start a bunch of fires here? The borders open and all yo need to know is when the winds pick up.


2 posted on 08/23/2023 8:01:16 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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Where is Castro’s kid?

Canaduh has gone mad.


3 posted on 08/23/2023 8:01:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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About a month ago, from the Yukon Territory border with British Columbia, I drove south on BC backroads for 800 miles and crossed back into the US at Midway, Canada.

About 400 miles into BC the smoke started appearing. By 300 miles it was so thick you couldn’t see very far. And, it smelled bad.

I don’t see how the Canadians stand it day after day. It surely must be a long term health issue too.


4 posted on 08/23/2023 8:10:22 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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How hard is it for an army of Chicoms or muslims to start a bunch of fires here?

Not hard, but you don't understand criminal profiling or who the enemy is. This isn't the work of Chicoms or muslims, but left-wing indigenous whites. In Canada, they've burned down the churches, now they're burning down the forests.

5 posted on 08/23/2023 8:11:43 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Now, if one posseted any small degree of paranoiac tendencies, the thought that the “global” breakout of uncontained fires that started to occur over a decade ago, and has escalated every year since, might be a deliberate result of clear strategic planning by the global elite...

Factories processing food, industries processing oil & gas, entertainment events generating happiness, and now, land that would never have been available for commercial development without first killing thousands of indigenous occupants...

As part of the overall plan, the culling of the worlds population via engineered viruses to a degree that even Mulder would haven’t believed possible... Without resorting to standard warfare, these elitists have been able to eradicate more of the global population that Mao, Hitler, and Stalin combined...

From the very first day that the communist, in the 1960s, planted the seeds of phony climate change as an economic weapon to break the economic back of all nations, adopted and supported by the global elites, it has successfully been forged into a weapon far greater in its destructive power that any developed for the former “cold war”...


6 posted on 08/23/2023 8:27:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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Bookmark


7 posted on 08/23/2023 9:01:51 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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Terrorism by inferno.


8 posted on 08/24/2023 1:58:40 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Trudeau doing his part to initiate climate change


9 posted on 08/24/2023 4:29:18 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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