More that 1,000 people were evacuated from the village of Lytton, which is 250 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, on Wednesday night without a prior notice as flames moved quickly, British Columbia Premier John Horgan said, reported CNN.

The fire has charred "most homes and structures in the village" and several people remain missing in its aftermath,  British Columbia Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said at a news conference.

Media reports said that the fire occurred a day after the village, in the province of British Columbia, set a Canadian record high temperature on Tuesday of 49.6 degrees Celsius.

"Lytton has been devastated and it will take an extraordinary amount of effort to get that historic location back to what it was," Horgan said, CNN quoted.

Mayor Jan Polderman asked the residents to leave the community and go to a safe location while notifying the residents of the fire that was leaping toward the village, according to the CNN report.

"It's dire. The whole town is on fire," Polderman told CBC News, the report said. "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there was fire everywhere."

"At the First Nation band office, the fire was a wall about three, four feet high coming up to the fence line. I drove through town, and it was just smoke, flames, the wires were down," Polderman told the Canadian broadcast network, the report said.

At least 90% of the village is burned, including its center, said Brad Vis, a member of Parliament who represents the Lytton area, in a Facebook post.

Rail and highway infrastructure as well hydro power stations have been gutted in the fire, he added.

Two wildfires have closed highways to the north and south of Lytton, according to DriveBC, which provides information on driving conditions in the province, CNN report informed.

Currently, British Columbia has 99 active fires with 76 fires burning in the last two days, according to the BC Wildfire Dashboard, the report added.

In the last 24 hours as many as 29,000 lightning strikes had been recorded which caused multiple wildfires.

"I cannot stress enough how extreme the fire risk is at this time in every part of British Columbia," Horgan said.

Merritt, a city located close to Lytton, has opened a reception center for people who have been evacuated from Lytton, according to its Facebook page.

To date, the province has experienced 450 fires this year, according to ECCC Weather British Columbia.

More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as the province witnessed the highest ever temperature recorded in Canada, officials said Tuesday, CNN reported.