Wildfire Forces Evacuation of Residents in Small Western Canada Town

A view of the city after the scorching weather triggered an Air Quality Advisory in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 28, 2021. Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters

Wildfire engulfed the small western Canadian town of Lytton, forcing residents to evacuate after it suffered record-breaking temperatures.

Officials braced for more sizzling weather and the threat of wildfires from a deadly heat wave that ravaged western Canada and the U.S. Northwest amid record high temperatures.