Town of Lytton in Canada broke heat records. Now it is on fire.

[applegrove]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919

Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire"

Several out-of-control wildfires burning in other parts of province after heat wave

Bethany Lindsay, Courtney Dickson · CBC News · Posted: Jun 30, 2021 9:02 AM PT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

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Residents of a village in B.C.'s Fraser Canyon have been told to evacuate the area after a fast-moving wildfire swept in on Wednesday evening.

Mayor Jan Polderman says he told everyone to leave Lytton, a community of some 250 people, as the situation rapidly deteriorated. He signed the official evacuation order at 6 p.m. PT.

"It's dire. The whole town is on fire," Polderman told CBC News. "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."

He said he told residents to head for the nearby community of Boston Bar, and was on his way there himself.

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[applegrove]

1. Vibes to the people.

[3auld6phart]

4. Zoom Earth

Zoom has some scary looking Satellite pictures of
the heavy smoke going north.

[pandr32]

2. Terrible

I hope the fire is gotten under control before it gets any worse.

[applegrove]

3. Winds are pretty strong. It may get worse before it gets better.

[Duppers]

5. Gasp! 😱😱😱

😵😵

[Warpy]

6. It's fire season, so this was bound to happen

I just hope there is no loss of life and that one of the northern Pacific storms I was looking at earlier brings rain along with more southerly winds.

One thing you learn living out west is that it burns, it has to. People are just going to need to be a lot smarter about where they live, some areas being much more prone to fire than others.

It's either that or rethink the housing, itself.

(My part of town reeks of smoke tonight. I hope it's just fireplace people, it's been a little chilly for the last couple of days)