West Kelowna Fire Chief says one firefighter described their efforts as “a hundred years of firefighting in one night”
It has been a disturbing and dangerous week in Western Canada with theshowing no signs of letting up. More than 20,000 residents of Yellowknife have been forced to flee while a fast-moving fire in British Columbia has destroyed dozens of homes and threatened to engulf Kelowna.
These are “more complex” inpatients and require medical care and support during transit, said Alexander Keefe, a spokesman for Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority. “The goal is to have the hospital patient evacuation completed in the next 24 hours,” he said in an email Friday afternoon.ferocious fire
West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund said one firefighter described the situation to him as “a hundred years of firefighting in one night.” “We knew it was going to be bad and this is what we planned for and this is what we practise for. But it was exponentially worse than we expected.”
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