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VANCOUVER Several chickens have died in a fire that tore through a barn in Chilliwack Tuesday morning. Firefighters said the blaze was reported at a farm on Castleman Road shortly before 11 a.m. Dozens of firefighters arrived to find heavy black smoke and flames pouring out of a poultry barn, the fire department said in a news release later in the day. Using water from a nearby hydrant, crews were able to put out the fire, and keep it from spreading to other buildings on the property. This was despite warm temperatures, and the fact that the fire was quickly spreading, the Chilliwack Fire Department said.
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“Then, into my consciousness came a faint beep, beep, beep,” said Morris Delrio. It was a fire alarm. “I thought it was a car alarm.”
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A split second later came the clatter of something heavy falling a bang and a boom. Roused from her half-sleep, Morris Delrio thought perhaps someone was attempting to break in.
Then, ever so faintly, she detected the smell of something burning.
She jumped out of bed and ran to the window. Outside, she saw her neighbour running around in his underwear.
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Dozens of fires raged across western Canada and California on Friday with little relief expected from a deadly heatwave that has seen temperatures hit record highs.
Around 1,000 people were evacuated in Canada s British Columbia province Thursday when a wildfire burnt down 90 per cent of a small town that had set a national high-temperature record for three days running.
Experts say the heatwave on steroids was brought on by the global climate change crisis and has caused several hundred deaths in Canada and the United States.
The town of Lytton, 250 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, has sustained structural damage and 90 per cent of the village is burned, including the centre of town, local MP Brad Vis said.
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La letal ola de calor que azota Canadá y que afecta a la costa este de Estados Unidos que ha dejado temperaturas de casi 50º sigue cobrándose consecuencias. Después de la pérdida de cultivos, los heridos y los fallecidos por el calor extremo, Lytton, la ciudad que ha alcanzado la temperatura más alta de Canadá, 49, 5º, ha sido completamente consumida por un incendio en menos de 15 minutos.
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El alcalde de Lytton, Jan Polderman emitió la orden de evacuación el miércoles (hora local) y dijo en Twitter que el incendio amenazaba las estructuras y la seguridad de los residentes de la comunidad, que se encuentra a 153 kilómetros al noreste de Vancouver. Se aconseja a todos los residentes que abandonen la comunidad y vayan a un lugar seguro , dijo Polderman.