Yellowknife, Northwest Territories| A massive wildfire in Canada’s western province of British Columbia prompted evacuation orders early on Friday while residents from the remote northern city of Yellowknife scrambled to get out of town before flames blocked their exit.
A state of emergency was declared in Kelowna, a city some 300 kilometres east of Vancouver with a population of about 150,000. The Pacific province expected the following 24 to 48 hours to be the most difficult.
