Wildfire Nation: How Canada's Disaster Reveals Our True Dependence on Resilience The latest evacuation of over 20,000 people from western Canada due to wildfires serves as a stark reminder that disaster can strike without warning in even the most developed nations.
The speed and ferocity with which the Bald Range wildfire spread across British Columbia's Okanagan Lake region left officials scrambling to respond.
According to Erick Thompson, an emergency official for the Regional District of Okanagan Similkameen, the wildfire grew from 0 to 19 square miles in a matter of hours.