Megafires reshape the world


Residents watching the McDougall Creek wildfire in West Kelowna, Canada, in August from Kelowna. — AFP

ON Aug 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia.

The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration.

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