Fast-moving Canada wildfire doubles in size forcing thousands to flee homes
Erick Thompson, an emergency official with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, said this was one of the "quickest-moving, largest fires in such a short time" he had seen in the fire-prone region. Power was also lost across Summerland, city officials said early Saturday. On Friday evening, Thompson had been giving updates on the rapidly-spreading fire from the emergency operations centre.
- ▪Erick Thompson, an emergency official with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, said this was one of the "quickest-moving, largest fires in such a short time" he had seen in the fire-prone region.
- ▪Power was also lost across Summerland, city officials said early Saturday.
- ▪On Friday evening, Thompson had been giving updates on the rapidly-spreading fire from the emergency operations centre.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 1 hour. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ A fast-moving wildfire forces more than 20,000 people to evacuate in western Canada — Washington Examiner
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Fast-moving Canada wildfire doubles in size forcing thousands to flee homes<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, 'It's going crazy': Eyewitnesses capture forest fires raging across British ColumbiaByGrace Eliza GoodwinPublished6 minutes agoThousands of people were forced to flee their homes as a fast-moving wildfire in a remote part of western Canada spread rapidly, doubling in size since it was first detected on Friday.The Bald Range…
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