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CP NewsAlert: Wildfire triggers evacuation order for Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

By The Canadian Press on June 8, 2023.

A firefighter directs water on a grass fire on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, British Columbia, Monday, June 5, 2023. For the first time this year, air quality advisories are posted for part of Vancouver Island and a large section of the Lower Mainland as smoke from several wildfires wafts over the region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

VANCOUVER – An immediate evacuation order has been issued for residents of the British Columbia District of Tumbler Ridge, a community of 2,400 people in northeastern B.C, due to the threat posed by an encroaching wildfire.

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