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Take your seats... The jaw-dropping front-row spectacle as wildfire devours Canadian mountains
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 2:39 PM on 05th August 2009

When nature has unleashed its worst, sometimes there's nothing you can do but sit back and watch...


Pull up a pew: Helicopter pilots watch helplessly as a controlled fire burns on Mount McLean in British Columbia yesterday


Helicopter pilot Tim Franke is silhouetted as he checks his cell phone while he refuels a helicopter while the Mount Mclean fire rages in the background


A helicopter flies over the Mount Mclean fire behind an evacuated home. In the town of Lillooet, 2,500 people were forced from their homes as a fire raged less than a mile (1.6 kilometres) away


The fire races along a ridge behind a school and homes on Mount McLean


Orange smoke billows on the ridge behind a motel on Mount McLean


The fire continues to rage behind the evacuated homes pictured earlier