let's cross over now to local radio reporter and anchor colton davies. he joins us from kamloops in canada, just east of litan. colton. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. so tell us how is what is happening, enlighten affecting people in your community. it's, it's dark, it's heavy air and it's, it's a very difficult time. the damage that's happened in the last week. we didn't really have a fire season. we could go over the damage that has happened in the past week has been catastrophic. and the outlook is, is dire when we talk about the conditions because we're going through something truly historic in terms of our weather conditions and the fire red stream that we haven't seen before can moves and live and other communities in this area. it's hard a wildfire country and this time of year in british columbia and canada. but what we're seeing right now are conditions that we have right now. thousands of people are weighted as we know, as, as you know, most of the town about 90 percent hold burned to the ground. if i are starting wednesday night,

so fled the destruction rescue workers of searching, but many more he's gone. missing. colton davis is gentlemen that radio and l knew the local station in the come loop, city canada, he says the situation is extremely dire. are talking about close to 200 wildfires, bringing in this province that we speak raid. now we had lightening and recent days human activity has paused many more of those fires where i am and cameras. there's several significant, very large scale out of control fires that are burning outside of the city limits. and in the past 4 days or so, as we're speaking more than 75000 years or, or in the low from the devastating wildfires the world is heard about living british columbia, which birds almost essentially to the ground. and there's been multiple fatality reported there, and other people not accounted for. that's the county british columbia that on tuesday, recorded the warmest temperature ever in canada were in, mired in a historic never before the heat wave. it was just under 80 degrees celsius in britain on tuesday before that devastating wildfire for the commu

1000 people flood the destruction rescue work is a searching for people who have gone missing. colton davies is a john list, a radio and l news. local radio station in the kamloops city in canada and says that the situation in the province is getting was are talking about close to 200 wildfires burning in this province that we speak. great. now we've had lightening and recent days. human activity has caused that many more of those fires where i am in cameras. there's several significant, very large scale out of control buyers that are burning outside of the city limits . and in the past 4 days or so, as we're speaking more than 75000 years or, or in the low from the devastating wildfires the world is heard about little british columbia, which birds almost essentially to the ground. and there's been multiple fatality reported there, and other people not accounted for that. the county in british columbia that on tuesday, recorded the warmest temperature ever in canada were in mired in a historic never before the wave. it was just under 80 degrees celsius in britain on tuesday before that devas

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