2026年8月8日 美国东部时间上午11:28 / 美联社
随着一场快速蔓延的野火急剧扩散，朝着不列颠哥伦比亚省奥卡诺根湖沿岸城镇逼近，并烧毁沿途房屋，加拿大西部超2万人在夜间被下令撤离家园。
整个拥有约1.2万人口的萨默兰社区，以及附近皮奇兰及其周边约8000名居民，均被下令疏散。官员尚未确认房屋损毁数量。
鲍尔德岭野火最初于周五晚间被报告，但在数小时内就蔓延至约19平方英里，吞没了较小的福尔德社区，并以极快速度行进了约9英里抵达萨默兰。
奥卡诺根-西米卡门地区行政区的应急官员埃里克·汤普森称，这是该地区经历过的“移动最快、蔓延最迅猛”的野火之一。
汤普森最终不得不撤离应急指挥中心，并带着自己的家人疏散。
“我不得不离开应急指挥中心，赶来带家人撤离这片区域。我们正往南走，”他在周六早些时候从自己车内拍摄的视频中说道，当时他周围的道路已经拥堵不堪。
近年来，加拿大野火季的破坏性日益增强，导致大规模疏散行动，并多次将烟雾笼罩加拿大和美国大片地区。
社交媒体上发布的视频似乎显示，居民们沿着两侧燃起火焰的道路逃离时，有多栋房屋正在燃烧。
房主凯瑞·戈尔德和丈夫迈克·埃尔辛加在目睹火势越过附近山脉蔓延后，于凌晨12点30分左右撤离。
“太吓人了，火势蔓延得太快了，”戈尔德说道。
这对最近从温哥华市搬来的夫妇已经打包好了行李，准备好装猫的航空箱，并计划帮助一位残疾朋友一起疏散。
“你想留下来保护自己的家，但也不想被困在火里，”埃尔辛加说道。
Fast-moving wildfire in western Canada forces more than 20,000 people to evacuate
August 8, 2026 11:28 AM EDT / AP
More than 20,000 people were ordered to leave their homes overnight in western Canada as a fast-moving wildfire grew rapidly and raced toward towns along British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, destroying homes in its path.
The entire community of Summerland, home to about 12,000 people, was ordered evacuated, along with about 8,000 people in and around nearby Peachland. Officials had not determined how many homes were destroyed.
The Bald Range wildfire was first reported on Friday evening but grew to about 19 square miles within hours, overwhelming the smaller community of Faulder and covering the roughly 9 miles to Summerland at extraordinary speed.
Erick Thompson, an emergency official with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, called it one of the “quickest-moving, fastest-growing” wildfires the region had experienced.
Thompson eventually had to abandon the emergency operations center and evacuate his own family.
“I had to leave the EOC to come and get my family to leave this area. We’re heading south,” he said in a video posted early Saturday from his vehicle as traffic backed up around him.
Canada has endured increasingly destructive wildfire seasons in recent years, forcing mass evacuations and repeatedly sending smoke across large parts of Canada and the United States.
Videos posted on social media appeared to show multiple homes burning as residents fled along roads with flames on both sides.
Homeowner Kerry Gold and her husband, Mike Elsinga, fled around 12:30 a.m. after watching flames spread beyond nearby mountains.
“It’s scary. It’s moving fast,” Gold said.
The couple, who recently moved from the city of Vancouver, had packed bags, prepared a carrier for their cat and planned to help a disabled friend evacuate.
“You want to stay here and protect your home but you also don’t want to get caught in it,” Elsinga said.
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