Western Canada blazes cause evacuation orders, air quality concerns
TORONTO — The season’s first major wildfires have spread to roughly 19,000 acres across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces.
In British Columbia, thousands of residents in Northern Rockies Regional Municipality and Fort Nelson First Nations were evacuated as the nearby blaze spread.
Northern Rockies Regional Municipality Mayor Rob Fraser in a TV interview said most of the…