Evening Update: Smoke aids B.C. fire fight, nearly 60 buildings destroyed in Kelowna area

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Good evening, let’s start with today’s top stories: The BC Wildfire Service said today that weather across British Columbia will be affected by a hurricane in Southern California, challenging firefighters already battling hundreds of fires that forced 30,000 people from their homes and caused a provincial state of emergency. It says the Bush Creek East wildfire in the Columbia Shuswap region, which merged and encompassed the Adams Lake wildfire this weekend, is now about 410 square kilometres in size. There are more than 380 active wildfires burning in B.C., including the 110-square-kilometre McDougall Creek fire burning on both sides of...