Timelapse: Kelowna area Canadian wildfires

Описание: Officials in southern British Columbia said 174 properties were partially or totally damaged by the fires that raged for days in the Okanagan Valley threatening towns in the Kelowna area, a summer destination about 90 miles north of the U.S. border. (Timelapse video is from Aug. 18)

More than 25,000 people in British Columbia have been under evacuation orders, with 37,000 more under alert to be ready to evacuate on short notice.

More than 500 firefighters are currently battling the blazes around Lake Okanagan.

Drenching rainfall was also in the forecast Aug. 23 for much of British Columbia’s fire-ravaged interior, where up to 80 millimeters of rain was expected.

The forecast also includes warnings of potential localized flooding and "debris flows" as rains hit the scorched landscape.

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