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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Wildfire in British Columbia harmed 150 structures and forced 20,000 to evacuate

APTOPIX Canada Wildfires - (DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press via AP)

About 150 structures were destroyed or damaged by a fast-moving wildfire in western Canada that forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate last week, officials said Tuesday in the first detailed accounting of the toll.

About 2,200 people remained under evacuation orders and roughly 25,000 were on alert across British Columbia, Emergency Management Minister Kelly Greene said. Improving conditions allowed most residents of hard-hit Summerland to begin returning home.

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