Thousands of people in western Canada have been ordered to flee a fast-moving wildfire that nearly doubled in size overnight.A state of emergency was declared in British Columbia (BC) on Saturday, local time, after the Bald Range wildfire was burning out of control and grew rapidly to about 9,510 hectares.Evacuation orders were in place for Summerland, Peachland and other districts west of Okanagan Lake in the province's southern interior.The region produces most of BC's wine and is Canada's second-largest wine-producing area.Premier David Eby told a news conference on Saturday that one fire official had likened the fire to "a bomb going off"."He described flames on 100-foot tree, flames going 200 feet above that, and the fire creating its own weather system, which creates lightning, which then feeds on itself," Mr Eby said."Homes have been lost, and properties have been destroyed Firefighters from Mexico, Australia, France and New Zealand have helped combat the fires.In BC, where hot and dry conditions have increased the risk of more fires spreading, about 1,500 firefighting personnel were battling more than 100 fires.Fires have burned through 9.9 million acres in Canada this year, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.The fires in Canada follow what has also been a record-breaking summer so far across western Europe, with scorching temperatures and destructive wildfires.France and Spain have been particularly hard hit in recent weeks.The extreme weather across Europe has pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius in many countries, prompting health warnings for millions of people