With the water restrictions in place, watering lawns is reduced to once a week, and discretion should be used with washing cars and other outdoor watering in the Metro Vancouver area. According to the MetroVancouver website, water restrictions are now at Stage 2 of a four-stage plan to conserve water. The most serious consequence of the dry and hot weather is the water-use restrictions that have been enacted in some areas of B.C., including Metro Vancouver. Some highway closures may still be in effect, but residents are advised to go to the DriveBC website for detailed, up to date information. For the latest updates on evacuation information, residents can go to the province’s emergency website. have prompted a number of evacuation alerts and warnings in parts of the province, including the East and Central Kootenay regions, Port Alberni District, and the Squamish District. “Winds will shift to an onshore flow so that cleaner marine air should move in from the west today,” according to Environment Canada. There is also an air quality advisory for the Fort St. In Vancouver, the water was smoky and the sky was on fire.ĬBC News is reporting that air quality has gotten so bad from forest fires north of Whistler, that Environmental Canada has issued air quality advisories for Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Sunshine Coast and the south and east coasts of Vancouver Island.
In British Columbia, about 180 wildfires were burning on Sunday night, fed by the extreme hot, dry weather that appears to have cloaked western Canada in a situation more often seen in the western U.S. facing air quality and evacuation alerts, water restrictions as fires rage The First Nations community of Montreal Lake, about 120 km south of La Ronge, also was evacuated.ī.C. On Sunday, Digital Journal reported on the province’s largest evacuation to date this year, with 5,000 people in and around the town of La Ronge being evacuated to Alberta and other areas. If you have additional questions that are not answered here, please contact the ministry’s Client Service Office at 1-80.
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SMOKE ON THE WATER FIRE IN THE SKY FULL
Saskatchewan Ministry of Government RelationsĪ total of 51 communities are under full or partial evacuation due to the wildfire threat or smoke.
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