Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota engulfed large swaths of the Midwest and East Coast.

By Nivedita Balu TORONTO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - A wildfire prompted an evacuation alert on Wednesday about 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) from Vancouver, one of Canada's largest metropolitan areas, as blazes in Western Canada continued to spread due to dry and hot weather.

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The public have been urged not to fly drones over the incident and to keep doors and windows closed.

Hundreds of thousands of people, residents as well as vacationers, were forced to evacuate or told to remain indoors.

A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon,

Evacuations were ordered for a wildfire burning in Parachute in Garfield County. People in Morrisania Mesa on County Road 338 in Parachute are to evacuate immediately, Garfield County 911 said.