Thousands evacuated in western Canada as over 5,000 wildfires raging across country

Officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia have implored tens of thousands of residents to heed warnings and evacuate from areas threatened by “severe and fast-changing” wildfires By Friday, an out-of-control fire in southern British Columbia grew more than a hundredfold in 24 hours and forced more than 2,400 properties to be evacuated Meanwhile, the city of Yellowknife,capital of the Northwest Territories, evacuated most of its roughly 20,000 residents due to a large approaching blaze on Friday and Saturday All told, there have been more than 5,700 fires, which have burned more than 137,000 square km (53,000 square miles) from one end of Canada to the other, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality contents. Nobody knows SHANGHAI better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What’s up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them ■ What Chinese people’s lives are like during the post COVID-19 period ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you!