Canadian wildfires spark evacuations, air quality warnings in British Columbia

Record ID: 1689111

  • Title: Canadian wildfires spark evacuations, air quality warnings in British Columbia
  • Date: 12th September 2022
  • Summary: KHARKIV, UKRAINE (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SHELL CRATER AND DESTROYED WIRES ON GROUNDS OF POWER SUBSTATION UTILITY POLES VARIOUS OF DAMAGED EQUIPMENT AT POWER SUBSTATION SMOKE BILLOWING OVER EQUIPMENT POWER SUBSTATION VARIOUS OF DESTROYED BUILDING AND THICK WHITE SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF WINDOWS VARIOUS OF ROOM PILED WITH RUBBLE AND DAMAGED EQUIPMENT TORN WIR
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2022 00:27
  • Keywords: Canada Vancouver Vancouver Harbor environment fire smoke wildfires
  • Location: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  • City: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  • Country: Canada
  • Topics: Canada,Disaster/Accidents,Fires
  • Reuters ID: LVA001484912092022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Growing wildfires in Canada's westernmost province British Columbia (B.C.) prompted air quality warnings and evacuation orders on Monday (September 12), including the evacuation of a camp housing workers for the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.
    There are 193 active wildfires currently burning in B.C., including the Flood Falls fire in the south of the province and Battleship Mountain blaze in the northeast, which together have forced around 1,000 people to leave their homes.
    In Vancouver, B.C.'s largest city, Environment Canada extended an air quality warning because of high concentrations of fine particulate matter caused by wildfire smoke, some of which was being blown north from the United States.
    On Sunday (September 11) Vancouver had the worst air quality in the world, according to the World Air Quality Index.
    Trans Mountain Corp, owned by the Canadian government, said its 350-person Omahil Camp in Laidlaw, southern B.C., was safely evacuated.
    There has been no impact on operations of the existing 300,000 barrel per day Trans Mountain pipeline, which ships crude from Alberta's oil sands to the B.C. coast.
    (Video: Jennifer Gauthier Production: Deborah Lutterbeck)
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