With more than eight million hectares of forest already burned this year, 2023 is the worst wildfire season on record, CIFFC data show
Environment Canada smog warnings and air-quality statements around Montreal and Ottawa were lifted, while others remained
There were 569 active wildfires across the country around noon, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre , a sharp increase from a few days earlier fuelled mostly by new fires in Western and central provinces. The majority of new wildfires are believed to have a natural origin.worst wildfire season on recordIn B.C.
Sandy Feil, who lives next to Knox Mountain Park and was asked to evacuate Saturday afternoon, said she was not home at the time, but police let her and her husband go back and grab a few things. They were prepared. Elsewhere in the province, evacuation orders were issued earlier this week by the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako, the Takla First Nation and the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, while several other communities were under evacuation alert in the Peace River Regional District and the District of Tumbler Ridge.
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