Roughly 1,000 people have fled the wildfires in British Columbia, with many others still missing. Military aircraft are also being deployed. The response group said it would establish an operations center in Edmonton, with up to 350 military personnel providing logistical support to the region, according to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan.
“We will be there to help,” he told reporters. “These wildfires show that we are in the earliest stages of what promises to be a long and challenging summer.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with an incident response group that included several ministers, after earlier speaking with local, provincial and indigenous leaders.
“The dry conditions and the extreme heat in British Columbia are unprecedented,” Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said. Globally, the decade to 2019 was the hottest recorded, and the five hottest years on record have all occurred since 2012, according to. “Many of those lightning strikes were hitting near communities, (as) was seen in the Kamloops area.” While the immediate blame for the scorching heat has been placed on a high-pressure “heat dome” trapping warm air in the region, climate change is making record-setting temperatures more frequent. “We saw 12,000 lightning strikes, roughly, yesterday,” said Cliff Chapman, the director of provincial operations for British Columbia Wildfire Service, according to public broadcaster the CBC. The fires were north of the city of Kamloops, 350 kilometers northeast of Vancouver. Most were caused by intense lightning storms.
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