By Paige Taylor White and Nivedita Balu PENTICTON, British Columbia, Aug 8 (Reuters) – British Columbia ⁠declared ⁠a state of emergency on Saturday after ⁠thousands of people in the western Canadian province were ordered to flee a fast-moving wildfire that nearly ​doubled in size overnight.  The Bald Range wildfire was burning out of control and grew rapidly to about 9,500 hectares (23,500 acres), prompting evacuation orders in Summerland, Peachland and ‌other districts west of Okanagan Lake in ‌the province’s southern interior. The region produces most of B.C.’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,” Eby said. “Homes have been lost, and properties have been destroyed. Some people became trapped as conditions changed very quickly, and needed to be rescued,” the premier said, adding it remained …