More than a thousand fires, however, are still burning across the country.
WEST KELOWNA: Cooler weather brought relief Tuesday in the gruelling fight against wildfires in western Canada, allowing some evacuees to return home, even as blazes still spread elsewhere in the nation.
Temperatures in the major wine-producing region fell on Monday, followed by a light rain Tuesday morning, helping firefighters slow the advance of fires, which number in the hundreds in the province. West Kelowna fire chief Jason Brolund told public broadcaster CBC that the situation was “a step in the right direction” and provided a “glimmer of hope.”
It is still too early to begin allowing evacuees back in the Northwest Territories capital of Yellowknife, threated by separate fires in the far north, but Mayor Rebecca Alty said she was hoping for “favourable weather conditions” to allow firefighters to make “direct attacks on the fire.”