Canada’s wildfires now need ‘unprecedented’ international aid to fight
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Government officials sounded the alarm Thursday as they warned Canada’s fire season, which has seen more than eight million hectares of land burned, is still far from over.
Canada needs an “unprecedented level of international support” to fight wildfires that have so far burned more than eight million hectares of land, officials say.
Government officials sounded the alarm Thursday as they warned Canada’s fire season is still far from over, with projections showing potential for higher-than-normal fire activity right across the country in July and August.
Conditions are being driven by drought and above-normal temperatures, they said in a presentation to reporters. Fires are burning across the nation, which is also unprecedented, they added.
“An unprecedented level of international support” is required, officials said.
“The firefighting effort has now truly become a global effort.”
The wildfires have burned a record number of land this year – roughly 8.8 million hectares of land.
The previous record was set in 1989, when 7.6 million hectares were burned. Canada’s fire season historically runs between April and September, but officials warn that in many parts of the country, fire seasons are starting earlier and are becoming longer.
As of Thursday, 639 fires were currently burning with 351 of them considered “out of control.” To date, 3,412 fires have burned, forcing 155,856 Canadians from their homes.
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