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(CNN) CJ Summers described the fire that destroyed two of his family's barns like something out of an action movie.

"It looked just like a wall of fire," he said. "It sounded like a jet engine, like a tidal wave."

Summers, a 31-year-old who lives in Vancouver, grew up on his parents' ranch. He and his brother were on the ranch when a fire traveled from the forest nearby, eventually igniting some of their property and destroying two of their barns.

And they're not alone.

There were 202 wildfires burning in Canada's British Columbia province by Tuesday night and 14,000 people had been forced to evacuate their homes.

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