Officials ‘scrambling’ to meet needs of B.C. wildfire evacuees: minister
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Fast-moving wildfires in British Columbia are posing serious challenges for crews fighting to keep the flames from more than a dozen communities, officials said Sunday, July 16.
As many as 37,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes and are flooding into crowded evacuation centres amid a provincial state of emergency that Transportation Minister Todd Stone said could last “many weeks.”
“We are going to get through this. We are resilient”
– BC Transportation Minister Todd Stone
More evacuation orders were issued Saturday night as winds picked up in the Interior, jumping highways and threatening to cut off escape routes.