Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency as 15,000 homes evacuate - BBC News

About 15,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia, as firefighters battle raging wildfires that have set homes ablaze.
Officials said a "significant" number of buildings caught fire in West Kelowna, a city of 36,000 people, and more than 2,400 homes were evacuated.
A state of emergency has been declared for the entire province, where hundreds of separate fires are burning.
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[@lizrock1442]

As a Quebecquer, my heart goes out to British Colombia. We also have been going through massive forest fires. I hope everybody will be safe and sound.

[@davemcd9077]

what does being a Kebeker HAVE TO DO with well wishes?=most of us proper Canadians DON"T GIVE APHUCK what you Kebekers think or say. stFu with your typical Kebeker 'ME" show.

[@BondJFK]

You will get natural french fries in BC 😂

[@mattdias6689]

Merci beaucoup my friend.

[@garryleonhardt4925]

Hopefully those responsible that set them, and those who paid for them to start them will be prosecuted

[@electrophonics1]

@@garryleonhardt4925can we just not make crazy conspiracies about tragedies?

[@ninemoonplanet]

For those in the UK and Ireland, ALL that land could fit inside British Columbia, with land to spare. That's why it's possible to have 300 forest fires burning just in one province. BC total land area is almost 1 million hectares, 364,764 square miles. The Kelowna fire is 27 square miles in size, 7000 hectares, approximately. That's bigger than Santa Ana California or Newark New Jersey in size. Now is it a bit clearer why 300 fires can happen in just one province?

[@coulterroberts5760]

Just a correction, it's almost 1 million square km, 95 million Ha

[@sarahthatcher123]

I get your point but you have no idea what it is like to be in it…( the area) and the scale. in just 2 days we thought we’ll evacuate to our relatives in the north then in hours the fire in their area flared up and they were evacuated, we could not go west because that is into the fire. Or the trip around would be extremely long and in the smoke with an elderly parent with CoPd.. and no actual place to stay and not affordable at the coast for any length of time. We could not go south because the highway that goes south you get to via the west highway ( into the fire) . We thought of going East but then fires in communities along the way and very remote forested highway and too risky with lighten strikes happening. All that to say there are so many more real life complexities then just some land mass distance. Better not to comment when you aren’t actually in the situation.

[@sarahthatcher123]

Also, look into the basic facts about BC …I don’t even know what the exact percentage is ( quick Google search could inform you) but the vast majority of the entire population of BC is in the south. Kelowna and area is the second largest populated area in BC. apart from Vancouver ( or Victoria) . Again land ‘mass’ alone means ‘nothing’ when talking about the human impact and loss here.

[@tylero8595]

Ive lived here in BC for 47 years. My entire life. BC is huge. When you drive anywhere its always a road trip. Going north is a big deal when going from Vancouver. Even Vancouver Island is big.

[@madelonbooij5207]

Please take care of the animals also...they need protection to. Thank you. Stay safe

[@Isclachau]

You do realise millions upon millions of animals died a long time before humans were around. Did they need protection to?

[@melissastory1993]

We are, at least as far as livestock and pets are concerned. Within minutes of the evacuation alerts and orders going out, we had people offering their services to help people relocate their animals. There are groups who people can contact if they’ve already evacuated to go to their property and evacuate their animals. A family in my neighbourhood lost their barn the other day, but thankfully they’d already evacuated all the animals ❤ We expect fires every year, so most people already have plans in place for their animals.

[@MikeySlou]

Go volunteer

[@janinecaramanus1392]

Praying for all in these effected areas. So proud to hear South African fire fighters have joined. Please protect all these men and women in service.

[@michellesheaff3779]

The South Africans are amazing, they're fighting the Yellowknife fire as well. They keep singing to boost morale in their yellow uniforms. They're a ray of sunshine when it's black at noon.

[@melissastory1993]

As much as we wish we didn’t need them, we appreciate the South African fire fighters whenever they help out (this isn’t the first time). The videos of them singing in their yellow uniforms is something most Canadians have seen many times. We have so much love for them ❤

[@janinecaramanus1392]

@@melissastory1993 so lovely thank you for kind words. ❤

[@nicklanfear4303]

Thx sa. Had a gr8 visit there in 2013, awesome place..

[@FionaEm]

So awful to see Canada burning the way south-east Australia did a few years ago. Fortunately, not many ppl lived in the areas that burned here, but the flames were horrifically high, ppl had to be evacuated by boat from some places, and an estimated 1 billion animals were killed 😢

[@RobertMJohnson]

A Billion animals? We’re most of them mosquitoes?

[@ninemoonplanet]

Aussie firefighters are coming, thank you. People don't realize Canada has the second largest land area in the world, the largest boreal forest lands. We deal with forest fires every year, but this year is by far the worst. Thank you.

[@danielvilliers612]

Perhaps if they stopped pumping/fracking like crazy they would not have had nearly 40 Celsius near the polar circle.

[@tastypymp1287]

​@@danielvilliers612Hush now.

[@codymcnalley8517]

Shush , your making this worse with that bullshit. @@danielvilliers612

[@thatraccoonguy.7075]

The fire in kelowna is a 30min drive from me. Soooo mich smoke and so many ppl losing their homes. So scary 😔

[@melissastory1993]

I’m in Kelowna and the smoke is brutal. It looks like we don’t have mountains surrounding us because they’re hidden behind the smoke.

[@cece354]

Stay safe please. It is devastating to see this monster burning up so fast in Kelowna. I pray for the fire to stop soon!

[@melissastory1993]

@@cece354 much progress has been made! The Kelowna side is easing up a lot. So far, it looks like less than 10 properties lost on the Kelowna side, but West Kelowna is over 50 currently ☹️

[@SlooshieMcCookies]

I just got a job and house in kelowna BC to move forward with my life, its always been a goal for me to live in BC, and now my goals are burning up. Im supposed to move there in a week, praying that the fires move away from the city

[@jowiens32]

We’ve lost a job site and all the equipment in the Kelowna fire. It’s still burning. My heart aches for the residents of the city who are losing their homes. 😔

[@Stylelss]

Still burning? As of Sunday the 20th? Wow. I was there Friday. It was bad.

[@jowiens32]

@@Stylelss Yes the fires are still active

[@melissastory1993]

Yes, we’re still losing structures too. The fires are far from out or under control.

[@anitaschweigert83]

My friend lost her home aswel.

[@hnttakata713]

Incredibly organized and efficient.

[@lesleyM84]

absolutely excruciatingly heartbreaking.. all of these fires.. everywhere… it feels utterly overwhelming.. so much destruction, loss and fear.. i am so, so sorry… so grieved.. from the ashes, i pray the restoration and the resilience and just huge bravery for everyone, arises and sustains in recovery..

[@HowLifeWorks]

Maybe it’s time that you WAKE UP and realize that your enemies are starting, and maintaining, these fires... to implement the United Nations agenda (which is actually the World Economic Forum agenda).

[@shannongrimes9468]

Prayers to Canada 😢

[@Onequietvoice]

Plus, I am sure, an undertaking to cut your emissions. You would not want to be a hypoocrite would you?

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

​@@changedman69lmfao troll trash clown .

[@DevoteeCT]

Canada, and the whole world, needs to repent. Prayer won't do much without repentance.

[@dilenaking4746]

Praying for our neighbors to the North ❤🙏

[@honestj820]

Hey how are you doing?😊

[@dilenaking4746]

@@honestj820 on fire actually

[@honestj820]

@@dilenaking4746 Nice meeting you here where are you originally from?

[@dilenaking4746]

@@honestj820 I am from NW Montana. Still live there. You? 😊

[@honestj820]

@@dilenaking4746 That’s a nice place to stay, I’m originally from Norway 🇳🇴 but living in San Diego California

[@paulbaker847]

I live in Southern Oregon. I have a "go" bag in my car as a matter of course. Anything I deem vital is kept within easy reach for a quick exit. I've already seen fire go through a town that I used to live in. When the wind is blowing it doesn't take long.

[@melissastory1993]

Yes, most of us are in that boat too. Though, it’s not something most people take seriously until they experience a close call. Kelowna is a rapidly growing city, which means that many of our newer residents won’t have experienced how serious it can be until now. I’ve been here over 9 years, so I’m always relatively close to being ready, but anyone who has only moved here recently won’t have lived through it yet.

[@paulbaker847]

@@melissastory1993 There's nothing quite like a borate bomber flying over your house at about 200 feet. The vibration knocks stuff off shelves and pictures off walls.

[@azizaljubijankic1179]

I hope everybody will be safe and sound. Kee an eyes on animals also.

[@GuanYinCitta.]

Heartbreaking to see so many affected by these wildfires. My thoughts are with everyone in B.C., especially those who've had to evacuate their homes. May the winds be gentle and the rains come soon to quell the flames. Stay strong, B.C. 🙏 - "Life is a train with no return journey. From a small bed when we were born to a small box when we leave the world, we can take nothing away. What we enjoy is just a process. In this process, nothing can be kept. Therefore, we must learn to overcome troubles and abandon attachments. In this world, we need to be enlightened from the heart, to change ourselves, to see through quickly, and to be enlightened. Many people can't let go of their attachments throughout their lives: "This is mine, that's mine." In the end, there is nothing left. To overcome your own desires, you will not regret tomorrow." - Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door Master Lu

[@cece354]

Can you tell your compatriots to stop buying homes in BC as their demand to buy homes is forcing greedy developers to slash all the trees from our province to meet your demands! So please leave BC alone!

[@gisomala2959]

We pray for Salvation and Protection.

[@anakinskywalker2002]

man, the U.S and Canada have a LOT of this going on.

[@grindupBaker]

It's the vast northern boreal forest, Tiagra, same as Scandinavia & Russia. At risk of starting a fight, as this Global Warmage progresses it's entirely possible that boreal forest might not be the correct vegetation any more for parts of this region and when a Planet decides it's the wrong vegetation then THAT'S THAT.

[@Princi350]

Always good to help out our Commonwealth siblings in Canada much love from South Africa 🇿🇦🤝🇨🇦

[@sabrinawilliams5175]

Lord have mercy !🥲🥲🥲🫢

[@TylesBrain]

Trudeau needs to give land to the WEF

[@kgm4556]

Is there a situation you don’t spin into conspiracy land? Tims is closed for RENO, “WEF BOUGHT IT”. Sad.

[@theresagirtell4102]

Jesus said this was coming. The earth shall burn with ferverent heat. The Eufrates is drying up, read rev. 16.12. The good news, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved, call now, tomorrow is not promised.

[@adeolaolatunji9324]

I told my Son the same today.

[@nr619]

so many people seem to be happy about this situation and spreading lies about the reasons of these wildfires ....... ! thruly disgusting

[@Chris-lf9dl]

Better to be conspiracy theorist rather than an idiot.

[@darkwoods1954]

The BBC love wild fires now. Helps them spread climate change fear propaganda.

[@cmccullough12C]

I agree. They are quick to accuse and judge with nothing to back their claims up. They live in a little ignorant bubble and even giving them info, they still won’t believe. It’s like they don’t understand rational reasoning. I give up on them. They say ignorance is bliss so I guess there’s a lot of blissful people in the world

[@melissastory1993]

Agreed. I live in Kelowna and we know the reasons. Sometimes it is human-caused, either intentionally or unintentionally, but dry lightning during a severe drought is going to cause fires, simple as that. If they lived here, they’d understand

[@hummingbird11]

I have a lot of family in various areas of BC. Prayers to all involved, & praying for rain as well. This is devastating. 💔

[@DaVe-iSnOtHoMe.MaN.LemmingsWeB]

I live in west kelowna. And wow wake up untill u SEE THE BEAST FOR YOURSELF. U CAN'T STOP HER .......

[@melissastory1993]

100% I watched the fire travel down to Westside Rd on Thursday and it was unstoppable. The growth and speed of this fire was something I’d never witnessed before and I’ve been here for over 9 years. A beast is very accurate.

[@DaVe-iSnOtHoMe.MaN.LemmingsWeB]

@@melissastory1993 thang full the wind wasn't 100mph it was only 45kph(+-15kph)55/60 kph gusts. If it was gale force

[@cleroyster2610]

DEW. Just sayin’

[@JodoKast1221]

DUM FUK…just saying!

[@brendaross7955]

Praying for animals too

[@Imran-ix9rp]

Western countries have unlimited supply of weapons to create fire but no equipments to stop fire. Technologically advanced countries doesn't have means to detect and take out wild fires.

[@melissastory1993]

That is not accurate for Canada at all. Have you seen our Armed Forces? We have plenty of wildfire fighting resources, but this is an unprecedented fire season. I watched the flames come up over the hill and down the front of it in minutes. No technology is going to stop that.

[@sarahthatcher123]

@@melissastory1993. Have to disagree Melissa. Because of the heavy smoke our bombers that are technically the most helpful by dropping the water cannot fly in the smoke or at night because of visibility issues … because they DO NOT HAVE the latest technology ( infrared or sonic? ) capabilities AND YET the fires just across the boarder from the Kelowna fires in Spokane county DO HAVE bombers with this capability…the difference that could be made if our bombers could fly at night or in smoke is incalculable. I’m here today in Kelowna on alert in the smoke and we have low winds so could be a great day for those bombers to make huge progress on the fires but they aren’t flying at all because of the heavy smoke. SHAME ON OUR GOVERNMENT! All the pain, loss, mental and physical and emotional agony and trauma these people will live with in the best case scenario will be a year…it’s all on their heads! Please look into this for yourself and then write to every level of government and tell them this is unacceptable!

[@MrShakero]

Fires and floods everywhere, mother nature gives back what we gave her.

[@cassidypresley7154]

.......we reap the consequences of our own actions.........in this unsettling world that we have been the subject of not looking after our mothering earth and its inhabitants.

[@soulquesthealingmusic2307]

Many of the fires are arson.

[@maigo6]

100% agree with that, the Eco Activist Zealots have an Agenda to push.

[@ninemoonplanet]

NO, not any of the fires in the Okanagan or in most of BC. Why do you want criminals so busy starting fires? The vast majority of the fires, 300 of them, were started by lightning strikes on very dry forest areas. Got it?

[@maigo6]

@@ninemoonplanet you don’t know that, you cannot say that 100% there was no Arson involved. Got it !!

[@soulquesthealingmusic2307]

Are you the God of fire sources? In fact, peoplehave been arrested for arson in such fires. Got it Mr. Smart Ass?@@ninemoonplanet

[@soulquesthealingmusic2307]

I have personally witnessed lightning starting fires, got it? But what is happening now ALSO involves opportunistic arson. Got it? Do you get it got it Mr. Fire Authority?@@ninemoonplanet

[@heidimueller1039]

The amount of time spent commentating by these crazy conspiracy theorists would be better spent educating themselves with some actual facts. Good grief, are there really so many ignorant Canadians? It’s scary.

[@simonmilner3578]

Historically it's a low fire season

[@meghan42]

Historically, it's the WORST fire season EVER!

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

@@meghan42 Only in your rainbow unicorn land.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

​@@meghan42lol OK thanks buttercup.

[@Jc-ms5vv]

😂 enjoy denial while it last

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

@@Jc-ms5vv You are poorly educated.

[@anitaschweigert83]

So smoky here. Alot of friends had to leave. Air so bad. Pray for us.

[@honestj820]

Hey how are you doing?

[@anitaschweigert83]

@@honestj820 waiting to get back to work. air is bit better in my part of kelowna. But wind has started to pick up today. There 80% chance of rain tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

[@honestj820]

@@anitaschweigert83 Nice meeting you here where are you originally from?

[@anitaschweigert83]

@@honestj820 Hungary

[@honestj820]

@@anitaschweigert83 I’ve been to Hungary 🇭🇺 before it’s a very beautiful place to stay, I’m originally from Norway 🇳🇴 but living in San Diego California

[@casieblevins7253]

Please move your banner further down and make it smaller. It's current location blocks a large portion of what we are meant to see in the video.

[@topfueler2]

Don't worry Trudeau will fix it after his holidays of course

[@soundscape26]

He's not on holiday anymore.

[@danyboy1477]

Get lost trumptard

[@chethunt2455]

If we do not aggressively confront the climate crisis with urgency, these wildfires are merely the prelude to what’s coming.

[@nathang-en3io]

Arson

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Abrupt cc

[@rameshnadarajamani6465]

Pray for Canada 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 God bless all 🙏🏻

[@NoelKelley-kf6uq]

I know no one may care, but we cannot leave a terrible ocean for our children

[@sherrinvale]

Would be brilliant. If your banner down the bottom was a lot smaller.🤬

[@sabrinawilliams5175]

I agree, the banner is a bit too big.

[@sheilahauptmann8283]

Canadian stay Strong 👍🍁❤️

[@honestj820]

Hello how are you doing..?

[@sheilahauptmann8283]

@@honestj820 Hi how are you.l am okay thank you.we have hot weather in Austria.

[@honestj820]

@@sheilahauptmann8283 Nice meeting you here where are you originally from?

[@sheilahauptmann8283]

Hi l was Born in New Westminster BC Canada.

[@honestj820]

@@sheilahauptmann8283 That’s a nice place to stay, I’m originally from Norway 🇳🇴 but living in San Diego California, have you been to San Diego California before?

[@Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML]

I do remember the times when Australia had been burning. And when I offered my help Aussie have called me a scammer 🤷 That was pretty good lesson. Learned. Never help those who are from UK.

[@Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML]

Because Britons ungrateful on 80 level. 🤷

[@hOurworld11]

Ive just read a damning letter stating the fire department weren't helping because of orders.

[@audreymcgready4329]

Can someone tell me if this is happening in Maple ridge? God please keep everyone safe. Prayers for all.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

No fires on the Coast as far as I know. The big ones are hundreds of miles from Maple Ridge. BC is a big place. It's twice the size of France.

[@BondJFK]

​​@@abrahamdozer6273Is this hurt maple syrup and funny looking Canadians 😂

[@abrahamdozer6273]

@@BondJFK Maple syrup is produced 3,000 miles away in the deciduous "maple" forests of Southern Quebec. Canada is the size of Europe. Try to educate yourself. Canada is a nation of immigrants and we all look funny to some other diaspora group, here.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

​@@abrahamdozer6273ohh so do you have open borders too like the usa ?

[@abrahamdozer6273]

@@BidensTinks-dn9me It's a problem. Canada gets between 20,000 and 40,000 illegals crossing into Canada from the US every year. The border is 6,000 miles long. Try closing that!

[@user-cp3zl5sf8p]

I live in Lake Country..watched the fire jump the lake that morning..it was close to where we live... we had our bags packed for a few days..but we were OK. Our beautiful Okanagan ..mainly West Kelowna not so much..even some of the firefighters lost their own homes.

[@stephendettman901]

Your large opaque banner is blocking much to the video content. Try something smaller or semi-transparent.

[@aWienerandaBeaner]

From SC here. Why are the fires so intense in that area. Is it the humidity, or being dry? We have fire here in Appalachia, but they're normally on the ground. The trees don't go up like candles. Just asking

[@christopherlussier4383]

Hello, I live in Vancouver but have lived in The Okanogan before.. the OK valley, our interior of BC in the summer can be very much like desert conditions. They havn't had any substantial rain in almost 2 months now (Hence why it's a tourist destination). Climate change has a lot to do with too... Extreme Dry conditions plus wind and fire? it's a very dangerous cocktail. What just happend recently in Hawaii is a very good example. Unfortunantly, this is the "New " normal... just about every year now the heart of BC burns. Stay Safe and take care.😊

[@whatcaneyedo]

We've also logged about 90% of our old growth forests in BC and replanted them with mono crops that are much more vulnerable to forest fires. Industry, government and media don't like taking about that though...

[@michellesheaff3779]

Unusual drought and heat waves and increased dry lightning. For every degree of global warming there is 12% more lightning strikes and the north is warming faster, like 3 degrees compared to 1.1 degree globally. Furthermore, boreal forest is flammable compared to rainforest and deciduous and tropical forests, for a variety of reasons. Leaf litter acts like kindling when arid weather dries it out--normally snow pack mitigates this but we had very little snow this year and it melted incredibly early with unseasonably hot weather. Also, boreal fires can smoulder below ground and reignite, the infamous Fort McMurray fire survived an entire winter underground in the moss and roots. Also, bo real trees, balsam fir, white and black spruce, Jack pine, are not just flammable, they're explosively flammable, like the eucalyptus trees in Greece and Australia. The boreal trees literally explode and send flaming branches everywhere. They're small trees because of the harsh climate as well as being highly flammable so they become crown fires. Crown fires are when the flames shoot up past the tops of the trees which makes them particularly dangerous because the wind can then whip the embers forward long distances--that's how the West Kelowna fire jumped Okanagan lake and started three new fires on the other side. Also, Canada has the biggest forest in the world from Atlantic to Pacific to Arctic. (technically Russia has more trees as it's significantly bigger, but it's broken up by human activity.) So in Canada, unlike on a Greek island say, there is always more forest, always more fuel. There's a lot more and I'm no expert, just a Canadian. My father was a wildfire look out in British Columbia when it was still done by men in look out towers instead of satellites and thermal imaging. These new fires are different, fire behaviour is changing and they are becoming increasingly impossible to contain and extinguish. They've been fighting the Yellowknife fire for a month and it just blew through every fire guard, retardant line, back burn, fire break, palm sprinkler, and they're fighting it with fleets of air tankers and an army of firefighters. That monster is still advancing on Yellowknife which has been mostly evacuated. If this seems mindboggling to you, it's mindboggling to us too even though we're used to wildfires. This is just insane.

[@MeMe-cz6pk]

The Okanagan's hot, sunny, dry climate is classified as semi-arid, with the lowest average annual precipitation in southern Canada.❤ The topography of the area treed ridges, mountains make it very difficult to fight wildfires. Winds through the Valleys create a chimney effect with wildfire travelling up the ridges. If the fire is large enough and intense enough, it can create its own weather patterns. Infrastructure is also lacking. Dry conditions, trees and brush ( fuel) fanned by high winds create these conditions. The Kelowna area has become overdeveloped, with housing on ridges, outcrops. The Kelowna area has also become overpopulated - its unsustainable.

[@Commontater2]

The recipe for wildfire here in BC is 30/30/30. That is 30°C, 30%humidity, 30km/hr wind. At that point you just need a spark. 100’s of lightning strikes, a few low IQ smokers as well and all of those 30’s met and well exceeded.

[@thoughtstorn854]

First Hawaii now Canada? Sounds suspicious 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@meghan42]

Don't forget Greece, Tenerife, Siberia, Quebec, and now Washington State. It's climate change!

[@robyn7165]

@@meghan42 Climate change is mind control. A 14km backburn on a tame fire, then massive devastation, and you call it climate change. SMH.

[@melissastory1993]

We get fires every year 🙄 loosen your tinfoil hat

[@robyn7165]

@@melissastory1993 Keep watching your tell a vision programming, parroting Frankfurt school MSM talking points it makes you look smart. 🙄 I live in the middle of the fires and know first hand what is going on, EXACT same script as lahina.

[@yuvanutkeobounnam6157]

Now wildfire I hope no one dies 😞

[@patrickbonney8082]

I blame acid rain, they said it would happen.

[@Shaolin91z]

Psalm 124 Thanks Lord for your salvation Thanks Lord for your peace

[@UnionScammers]

Insane.... billions spent on military to protect from who? When it comes to forest fires, citizens should be able to look up and see nothing but water bombers filling the skies. Billions for Ukraine but almost nothing for the real threat to Canadian homes and families. Ridiculous.

[@dahirgaas7611]

You didn't mention the bombings of the Middle East and all the time supporting Israel over almost armless, innocent Palestinians.

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks for posting

[@robertopettyo]

Where did they take all these people to?

[@ninemoonplanet]

Most of the people left the two cities to go to 2 cities, one north, one south. Seniors were taken to Alberta or Vancouver to be safely cared for.

[@meghan42]

Climate refugees.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

New York city......🤣💦

[@michellesheaff3779]

Alberta and Vancouver are already taking care of the 20,000 who evacuated south from the wildfires around Yellowknife. And doing an amazing job.

[@kyleellis1825]

Lots of people are staying with friends/family. The Stadium is being used for emergency shelter, hotels/motels are pretty much reserved for evacuees. Lots of people slept in cars the first night they got evacuated. I know I'm ready to offer my spare room if I need to.

[@shaemariKHAN]

❤❤❤😢😢😢

[@hsc-]

I Live

[@emmanuelmensahkwofie2278]

Lord God Almighty continue to have mercy please 🙏🙏🙏

[@marishkagrayson]

Fires in Canada, Maui, Greece, Tenerif… the oceans are heating up…if we’re not worried yet, we should be! 😢

[@deepthoughts8393]

Ya we should. Arson and DEW is not climate change

[@Onequietvoice]

You are correct - but we need to do more than just be worried. People need to understand that climate change, exactly as predicted, is happening right now and take action.

[@nr619]

not bad enough for most people it seems. they want to make more money and burn it in hell !

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

The only issue with the climate is that with carbon dioxide levels at a fraction of a percent, if it falls any further there is a risk that plants won't be able to photosynthesise and we will all starve. Life on Earth will end. What we need is more CO2, like we used to have and LIFE FLOURISHED🌞 🌞🌲🌳🌴🌳🌲🌞🌞

[@barneymagee3285]

“ the oceans are heating up”……😂😂😂

[@BurtonKennedy-oj3nl]

Canada makes the best water bombers in the world. Where are they?????

[@glennelliott708]

There are not as many water bombers made as there are fires burning. Spread thin.

[@hamidakhan37]

But iv seen people from authorities setting fire themselves what is that about?

[@rmzacck950]

So sorry

[@user-sr8mf2vg9p]

Unfortunately canada’s fires have no solution. No amount of rain will put these fires out.

[@meawreg]

from Hawai'i .... WTF??!?!?!?

[@paramdeeps5949]

3:28 what are you blushing and smiling about 🤷🏻‍♀️this is a serious matter with no definitive timeline when this will be contained 🙏

[@melaroha8003]

OMG not Canada too.

[@nazrinbegum9039]

So sad

[@kcuzz4091]

Please Lord keep them all safe from harm.

[@SteveSmith-kd9if]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SteveSmith-kd9if]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Amazing_Jamaica]

My heart and prayers go out to British Columbia.....I hope the fires end soon....

[@curiositycloset2359]

Burn back better

[@Onequietvoice]

Sicko

[@Chris-lf9dl]

Sociopath's plan

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@Onequietvoice the sickos are the ones doing this. And the ones reporting on it like we don't know what's happening.

[@SahilSaini-je8pu]

Sad news but karma will hit hard !

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

Yup, man doesn't want to change his evil fleshly ways. Then karma has arrived.......BTW FJB

[@whenmenwalkedtheearth]

Anyone educated enough to know how long its been since Canada built new water bombers? Fire fighting equipment and prevention isn't at the top of the priority list here. Our federal government would rather watch it burn and then tell us we need to buy an electric car to reduce our carbon footprint. Any fires north of Kapuskasing in my province of Ontario are left to burn, they call it (under observation) idiots. Most countries in the world could fit inside our province, with few roads in the northern portion ,thus the need for water bombers across our country. A major environmental economic loss for any region affected by wild fires. Angry you bet, but that's what happens when you have an incompetent elected government like ours. Canadians need to wake up, this wasn't the first time our forests have burned.

[@podfestt]

When you over exploit environment

[@goldguilder9554]

Luckily in BC homes are insured

[@terry5914]

Are they still fighting fire with fire?

[@shehnazshorkar8932]

So sad 😔 🤲

[@AutisticEthics]

Thank god they let people take their pets 😢😢😢

[@laceyharris5994]

I'm so glad to know that, as well!

[@IAmPublishingandRecording]

Residents use your water hose to combat these embers or embers from traveling in the smoke for goodness sakes😠😠😾😠

[@samngai07]

We need to fight the fire before it gets big, close monitoring is the key .

[@davidsalo8397]

With the incredible winds they have experienced, you sometimes only have enough time to escape. If you act fast enough.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

Lol fight the fire before it gets to big? Which one ?

[@FernieSenders]

Wow I bet nobody thought of that, thank you for your service!

[@kyleellis1825]

Do you have any idea how big Canada is and that 90% of us live within 100km of the border. Most of Canada is just wilderness.

[@Rnankn]

Fires could ignite anywhere, between the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans from lightning, power lines/infrastructure, or human negligence. The flames create their own weather, extending into the lower stratosphere, with even fire tornados. And the fire goes underground, and burns through roots and organic matter, then emerges somewhere new. It can do this through the winter, and resume burning in spring. The key is to prevent the forests from drying, by stopping the increase in solar forcing that occurs as a result of atmospheric carbon emissions.

[@philippeDC-hl7gm]

soon wil be france spain and portugal so they can send the hord in 15 minute cities these are no wildfires these are ignited and planned

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

Exactly. This is the 'Great Reset'

[@soundscape26]

What's your problem with the 15 minute city concept?

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

@soundscape26 We don't want to live in a communist concentration camp. duh

[@soundscape26]

@@JohnofthefamilySmith That's not the concept of a 15 minute city. And what does it have to do with Communism, I don't think workers will seize the means of production but maybe I'm wrong?

[@JohnofthefamilySmith]

@@soundscape26 You don't know much about communism or the fact that it has already taken over the West. It is the Soviet model.

[@armandoverduzco2250]

Repent sodom and Gomorrah 😢😢😢 Go and sin no more Believe in the salvation of Jesus Christ

[@vanceg4901]

Obviously firefighting capabilities need to be dramatically ramped up in the USA and Canada.

[@pambp5978]

The conditions this year are more extreme than usual the North American professionals are currently getting and not enjoying the on the job training. The wind is the difference.. worst year for conditions, in a world of worsts and bests I am hoping this doesn't happen again in anyone's lifetime.. there are people who are concerned we are past the tipping point for our forests.

[@vanceg4901]

@@pambp5978 - With the changing climate it's going to take a WWII scale effort to keep people and property safe.

[@robyn7165]

Good lord, mind controlled much? 70+ years of dumping aluminum and barium on us which is highly flammable then "back burns" is the problem Your pagan government and MSM religion has you brainwashed. LOOK UP! I live very close to these fires, the government openly did a 14km backburn for a fairly tame fire. Then structures were lost and mass devastation.

[@pambp5978]

@@vanceg4901 absolutely agree..

[@whosle]

Who is paying for that? You want to increase taxes like a communist?

[@iowaferret]

The whole world has fires...

[@strawberriebabieex3]

where is justin?

[@ninemoonplanet]

In Yellowknife, then Edmonton to be with people. 🙄 Where are you?

[@soundscape26]

Where he should be.

[@debnn4854]

Hes yaking up a storm in yellowknife 😅

[@ShortFuseFighting]

the worlds literally and metaphorically on fire...

[@sarllantape1071]

Prayer if God and with respect .... Hooeng dili na mu dako sng wikd fire so alert all people's..."///////

[@djpomare]

Wildfires happen every year. Swales can be dug near residential areas through government employment schemes. Goat farmers can circulate herds through those areas to remove brush. Use tried and true common sense rotational systems that have existed for millennia like herding ducks for locusts.

[@MeMe-cz6pk]

Right. Whose is going to build swales on the sides of ridges and mountains? And better yet, who do you propose pays for that? Goats arent likely to eat the vegetation on the ridges and mountain around Kelowna.

[@djpomare]

@@MeMe-cz6pk We're talking about surrounding urban areas. Those living in the midst of the forest must have known the risks before moving and buying. Just like those that moved to the picturesque houses running along the rivers that flood. C'mon Canda had money to be part of USAs AUKUS racist anti-Asian $368-billion-dollar scam and other pointless money shams. What about the savings Canada makes from not sharing wealth with the indigenous tribes?

[@gardeningwithkirk]

Sad, keep safe 🙏 from Gardening with kirk ❤

[@Jakas-qt6hj]

Humans are beautiful species

[@sandyflowers9201]

More than the human being

[@robyn7165]

Truth, and those who claim to care about the nature are hell bent on killing babies and sterilizing our species. If they are not killing them they are convincing them they are monkey gods and to self mutilate. We are made in the image of God and the controllers hate that.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

They taste like chicken.

[@robyn7165]

@@BidensTinks-dn9me You either support cannibalism or you don't thanks for telling us what side of the fence you are on. New Age Satanism is abundant nowadays.

[@MR-op3mo]

Why is she smiling talking about this disaster?

[@auro1986]

bbc, burning trees is not process of extracting maple syrup

[@mrmelmba]

Coniferous forest, aka turpentine bombs, permitted to establish itself in town is done with the full realization that nature is going to take its usual course and consume aging trees with fire in order to make way for new growth, as it has been doing since the beginning of time. A town should not have trees to the extent where they form a virtual grove contiguous with wild forest. There are some that greatly resent the use of a land by citizens that was not promised to them and seek office to curb this practice. Forest on it may not be disturbed no matter how great a hazard it poses to habitations. The detrimental effects of placing a halt to the use of land are homes consumed by fire, home prices that skyrocket beyond reach, rents that exceed incomes and homelessness.

[@FernieSenders]

That's a lot of words to say nothing at all.

[@mrmelmba]

@@FernieSenders They rushed to save a tree so that they would not be consumed by guilt. The tree they saved consumed their home and destroyed their life. None of the more than 100 million acres of forest in Canada may be cleared-from a land that was not promised to them-in order to shield a town from ready-to-ignite trees. Any councilor that proposes that these be removed to create fields that surround and protect the town is deemed a _denier._ Their career is ruined. A generation is in place that renounces Christianity, _a Godly faith_ and that refutes the _Immaculate Conception,_ but pays obeisance to the Cremation Cult, _a Satanic Creed_ whose _Inquisition_ does not permit the veracity of _Immaculate Cremation_ to be denied. A society acting upon Luciferian influence and unable to reason for itself is doomed.

[@wb2989]

You've posted that same non sense on every news reel about this.. Clearly you have no grasp of the enormity of these fires and that short of logging the entire province bare there is nothing humanity can do to stop natural processes!

[@soundscape26]

@@FernieSenders I tried... 😄

[@FernieSenders]

@@wb2989 he's legit copy/pasting it everywhere, why are the dumb ones always the loudest? Sheesh

[@brendaross7955]

Prayrrs for canada too

[@carmenklein6372]

So sad😪 What is the fire cost?😪

[@yuvanutkeobounnam6157]

The winter time in Canada 🇨🇦 so scary ,! Heavy snowing, the roads was freezing, many cars got accident, kill many innocent people,! If I talk with many Canadian people the first words they told me were too scared to drive on winter time ,

[@userYoucantfixstupid]

Who are you talking to? I spent23 consecutive wi ters in Rogets pass plowing snow for CP rail. People afraid to drive in the snow , aretbe peoplewho dont live in the snow. I find it quite funny what you wrote. Inot being mean, i just have never heard anyone say that except people who have never lived in a snowy region. You do whate et you have to , no matter where you live. Staying home til snow melts is not an option

[@mariajordan3650]

This distruction musy have been human caused. Poor animals and forests!

[@jodybryant1752]

Sending prayers to VanCouver . 🙏🏼😢🌍🦶

[@aproy5256]

Today was Smokey in vancouver. 😢

[@Barvey26]

The fires are in Kelowna, not Vancouver. Kelowna is 400km away

[@Football_cr7_fan_007]

Oooo noooo

[@ItsJJ1444]

These so called wild fires aren’t seeming so wild these days.

[@Onequietvoice]

Wildfires are certainly more common but just as wild.

[@Dogsnosogs]

As an American, I try to understand this accent 😂. Buttt, this was in September!? I hope the people are ok. (Won’t say safe because in the UK it means greeting someone in a polite manner).

[@themanwnoname3454]

2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[@Onequietvoice]

If the offers of prayers made here are sincere they need to be accompanied by an undertaking to cut CO2 emissions. If not they are just words. Words are cheap.

[@Isclachau]

Oh please. CO2 had nothing to do with it.

[@darkwoods1954]

Cutting CO2 would be about as useful as praying to some mythical entity.

[@BidensTinks-dn9me]

​@@darkwoods1954hush little head demon troll trash. You have no clout whatsoever...

[@Onequietvoice]

Except everything!@@Isclachau

[@Onequietvoice]

You really do not understand? It is not complicated. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It retains heat. This affects the climate. The climate in Northern Canada has become hotter and drier, QED. If you still do not understand I can give you more detail but it really is basically that simple. Prayer does not hurt unless it is a substitute for needed action.@@darkwoods1954