Prayers, sending Love for the wildfires in Western Canada and America – maps below.
One of our readers wrote in asking for help with wildfires in BC, Canada:
Please send a vibration for relief from the heat and forest fires in the Okanagan, BC.
Thank you.
Thank you, Dodeen, for drawing our attention to this.
Wildfires in Canada
Wildfires in America
Canada – More Than 180 Wildfires
with Hundreds Dead in Heat Wave
Wildfire burns above the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday.
James MacDonald/Getty Images
By. Jeannette Muhammad, NPR, July 4th, 2021
Emergency responders in Canada are currently battling more than 180 wildfires in British Columbia amid an intense heat wave that has left hundreds dead in the Pacific Northwest.
About 70% of the active fires were likely caused by lightning strikes, according to the British Columbia Wildfire Service’s dashboard. Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist with the company Vaisala, says a lightning detection network uncovered more than 700,000 lightning strikes in the area between June 30 and July 1.
‘Most Homes’ in Lytton, B.C.,
Destroyed by Catastrophic Fire, Minister Says
By Rhianna Schmunk, CBC News, July 1, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-lytton-july-1-2021-1.6087311
Dozens of families forced to flee their homes as a catastrophic fire devastated a small village in B.C.’s Fraser Canyon are now working to find loved ones scattered in the evacuations, while emergency officials urgently try to account for everybody in the community.
More than 1,000 people living in and around Lytton, B.C., northeast of Vancouver, were forced to leave with little notice Wednesday. They raced out of town as smoke and flames virtually decimated the entire community in one of the most destructive fire emergencies in recent memory.
The province said Thursday the loss includes “most homes” and structures in the village, as well as the local ambulance station and RCMP detachment. The local member of parliament said 90 per cent of the village is gone.
Online community groups were filled with posts from people desperate for information about family, friends and pets left behind. The challenge will be trying to confirm where residents went and connect them with their families, officials said.
Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated
as mayor says ‘the whole town is on fire’
A plume of smoke from the Sparks Lake wildfire, burning northwest of Kamloops, B.C., covered an estimated 40 square kilometres as of Wednesday morning. (MLAZZ Creative by Matt Lazzarotto)
Courtney Dickson, Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · June 30, 2021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-june-30-2021-1.6085919
The mayor of Lytton, B.C., said he has ordered the entire town to be evacuated after a fast-moving wildfire swept in on Wednesday evening.
Mayor Jan Polderman said he told everyone in town to leave as the situation rapidly deteriorated.
“It’s dire. The whole town is on fire,” Polderman told CBC News. “It took like a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to all of a sudden there being fire everywhere.”
Fire information officers with the B.C. Wildfire Service said they were unable to provide an update on the situation in the Fraser Canyon village.
This week, Lytton recorded the highest temperature ever seen in Canada on three consecutive days, topping out at 49.6 C on Tuesday.
Sending cooling blue to the wildfires
in BC and everywhere needed. . .
