Global News BC: Highway 1 closed, Lytton First Nation issues evacuation order, alert due to wildfire https://globalnews.ca/news/9904178/lytton-first-nation-evacuation-order-alert-stein-mountain-wildfire/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #LyttonFirstNationevacuationalert #LyttonFirstNationevacuationorder #SteinMountainfireorder #LyttonFirstNation #SteinMountainfire #evacuationalert #EvacuationOrder #WildfireLytton #BCWildfire #Fire

Oh geez. Poor little Lytton in #Canada is being threatened by #wildfire for the 3rd year in a row.

They set the all-time temperature record for Canada of 49.6 °C (121.3 °F) June 29, 2021. The next day #fire destroyed 90% of the town. another wildfire took out six residences across the river in July 2022.

Residents of Lytton First Nation were ordered to evacuate late on Friday. By Sunday, the out-of-control #SteinMountainFire was just 300 meters from reserve land.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/07/wildfire-lytton-first-nation-evacuate-british-columbia-canada