Quebec has seen improvements in the last 48 hours but country's west coast warns fire challenges ahead.
Quebec has put out more than a dozen fires since 1 June. The province is still battling 127 fires as of FridayQuebec has made progress in its battle to fight wildfires that have contributed to the smoke that blanketed large parts of North America this week.
On Friday, Quebec said it had allocated C$1,500 for every household that had been forced to evacuate in the province because of the fires. In Quebec, where about 120 fires are currently burning, residents from Oujé-Bougoumou told the BBC that they are getting regular updates about the fire threatening their Cree community.
Lance Cooper, the deputy chief of Oujé-Bougoumou, said his town of some 650 people had to evacuate quickly as thick clouds of smoke and flames encroached on Tuesday. Mr Cooper said that by the time he left, on the only highway out of town, what would have been a two-hour trip turned into a six-hour journey, with cars of evacuees from the region driving bumper-to-bumper .
At least another 150 homes were destroyed in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, local authorities had said.
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