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Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said the weather and the wildfires were having a “devastating” and “unprecedented” impact on British Columbia.
The village of Lytton in Canada recorded its highest ever temperature of 49.6C on Tuesday.
Temperature eased on Wednesday, but a wildfire broke out that same afternoon and took over the town, consuming buildings so rapidly many were not given advance notice to evacuate.
Edith Loring-Kuhanga, an administrator at Stein Valley Nlakapamux school, wrote on Facebook: “Our poor little town of Lytton is gone.
“We loaded everyone up in our vehicles and started driving … we had no power or internet in Lytton and everyone was trying to reach people.
“This is so devastating – we are all in shock! Our community members have lost everything.”
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