The World - News from July 8, 1985
A total of 528 forest fires have blackened 360,620 acres in British Columbia, and officials ordered the evacuation of about 1,600 people from the community of Canal Flats on Columbia Lake in the southeastern corner of the Canadian province. The evacuation was announced after a fire nearby spread from 3,700 acres to 11,000 overnight. Nearly 2,500 people are battling the fires, which have cost the province $23 million. The hardest-hit area was the Nelson forest district in the southeast.
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