Smoke Sets, Canadian Wildfire
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Canada’s wildfire season is off to an intense start, with the Western province of Manitoba declaring a state of emergency for the second time.. Wildfires have burned 2.5 million acres this year ...
“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle. Fire is now uncontrollable, and we're going to see more and more fire and more and more catastrophic fire.”
Drone footage has revealed the extent of wildfire damage caused by incidents in the Highlands last month. There were multiple callouts in the north of the country during the last week of June, after a fire broke out on Dava Moor, just north of Grantown-on-Spey.
FLIN FLON, Manitoba — Roughly 17,000 residents in the Canadian province of Manitoba have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires, officials said Saturday. More than 5,000 of ...
Some good news. The circumstances that led to the smoky chaos of 2023 were unique. Canada didn't just break its wildfire records that year, it obliterated them.
More than 200 wildfires are blazing across Canada, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate and creating hazardous air quality all over the U.S. Get Connecticut public policy news at your fingertips.
Two years after a historically devastating summer, Canada is once again facing a massive fire season, with burned areas already exceeding year-to-date averages from recent years.
There have been dozens of active fires in Canada, forcing more than 33,000 people to evacuate from their homes. ... and such incidents will happen more often moving forward.
As Canada’s wildfire smoke creeps down into the U.S., it’s also transforming. Chemical reactions between gases and sunlight create ozone, which further exacerbates lung conditions like asthma.