Tag: Canada wildfire

Canada left battered by ‘never before seen’ wildfire season

By Marion THIBAUT NORMÉTAL, Canada, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – When scientists started pouring over data to assess Canada’s fire season this year, they struggled to find the right superlatives. “Never before seen,” was thrown around, as was “exceptional in scale, duration” and “huge long-term consequences.” “We have shattered all the records on a Canadian scale,” says a shaken Yan Boulanger, a researcher for the country’s natural resources ministry. There had never been so many […]

Canada far north city ordered to evacuate as wildfires advance

By Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Aug 17, 2023 (AFP) – Residents of one of the largest cities in Canada’s far north were ordered Wednesday to flee amid warnings that raging wildfires could reach it by the weekend. The crisis in the town of Yellowknife is the newest chapter of a terrible summer for wildfires in Canada, as flames spread quickly across the country, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and charring vast swathes of […]