Weatherhood B.C.

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Fifty trucks will spend five months hauling Lahaina wildfire debris to a landfill in the center of Maui starting next Monday, Maui County said. There's enough debris to fill five football fields five stories high.

The BC Wildfire Service is reporting that the largest of the province's major fires in the northeast has more than doubled in size in the past 24 hours.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Barbara gradually weakened Tuesday as it continued heading northwest away from land after earlier strengthening to a hurricane. The storm marked the first hurricane of the eastern Pacific hurricane season . The U.S.

VANCOUVER — Temperatures are forecast to remain high in parts of southern British Columbia until mid-week after Sunday saw century-old heat records tumble.

British Columbia's wildland firefighters are predicting a busy fire season in parts of the province, particularly in the northeast where multiple evacuation orders are already in place and fires have been growing rapidly.

There were 28 active wildfires in the province as of Monday, 10 of which were out of control.

Officials say the Canadian military has evacuated more than 700 people from northern Ontario where a major wildfire is threatening a First Nation.

The BC Wildfire Service says the Pocket Knife Creek wildfire in the province's northeast has merged with another blaze, increasing its size "substantially.

The federal government has deployed members of the Canadian Armed Forces to help evacuate a northwestern Ontario First Nation as wildfires rapidly spread in the region, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.

Environment Canada has warned of an "early season heat event" across much of southern British Columbia starting Saturday and persisting into early next week.