Five stories in the news for today, July 17
Five stories in the news for Monday, July 17
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RESOURCES STRETCHED AS B.C. WILDFIRES RAGE
Fast-moving wildfires in the B.C. Interior are posing serious challenges for crews fighting to keep the flames from more than a dozen communities. As many as 37,000 residents have been forced from their homes and are flooding into crowded evacuation centres amid a provincial state of emergency that officials say could last many weeks. More than 160 wildfires are burning, including 15 that pose a danger to nearby communities, and there’s still no significant rain in the weather forecast.