Homes, structures destroyed as B.C. wildfires burn out of control

B.C. officials confirmed on Thursday that structures have been destroyed or “impacted” by the Fiftynine Creek wildfire, burning near the Village of Clinton. “I’d say we have at least a dozen properties where structures have been fully destroyed, again homes or secondary properties or other structures, even garages or sheds,” Colton Davies with the Thompson Nicola Regional District told Global News.“This fire came up so fast on Friday and a lot of folks would not have had time to prepare for even the evacuation alert before it was switched to a tactical evacuation order.”That fire forced an expansion of an evacuation order and alert on Thursday as firefighters battled the out-of-control blaze, now estimated at 11,000 hectares.In the Fraser Canyon, where three massive fires, called the…

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