Record-breaking heatwave in Canada risks inflaming wildfires with more than 210 forest fires already burning, including 82 out of control
This aerial image courtesy of the Nova Scotia Government in Canada, shows the magnitude of the fire in Shelburne County. / Photo: AFP
More than 210 fires were burning across Canada, including 82 out of control. And more than 2.7 million hectares have been scorched already this year, eight times more than the last three decades' average, say officials. After major flareups in the west of the country in May, notably in the Prairies provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, firefighting shifted in the past week to Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast — which is unaccustomed to severe wildfires — following hot, dry weather moving eastward.
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