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Weekend: Canada wildfires: More households ordered to evacuate

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Canada wildfires: More households ordered to evacuate

20/08/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Canada wildfires: More households ordered to evacuate

British Columbia declares emergency as 15,000 homes told to evacuate

Around thirty thousand people have been told to leave their homes in the western Canadian province of British Colombia as enormous wildfires continue to intensify. Officials say 'extreme fire behaviour' could prompt further evacuation orders. One of Canada's longest serving firefighters tells us what forty years of experience has taught him about containing vast wildfires.

Also in the programme: We hear a first hand account of the stresses of daily life in Khartoum, four months into Sudan's civil war; and football fans around the world are gearing up for the final of the women's World Cup between England and Spain in Sydney.

Joining Gary O'Donoghue to discuss all this and more are Lauren Frayer, London correspondent for the US National Public Radio network, and Fuad Musallam, assistant professor of social anthropology at the University of Birmingham, here in the UK.

(Photo: One Kelowna resident told the BBC the fires came over the mountainside like an "ominous cloud of destruction". Credit: Getty Images)

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