Happy to help Canada, but U.S. wildfire season is rapidly approaching, officials warn
It’s a number that’s expected to fluctuate on a daily basis as workers cycle back through the U.S. and then out again to meet additional requests for help, the U.S. National Interagency Fire Center said Friday.
That number doesn’t include state-level resources that are also assisting, the agency says: provinces and states have numerous regional “compacts” to allow them to share firefighters and equipment without needing to make a federal request. “Welcome to hell, New York,” declared a Times Square billboard for the new video game Diablo IV — a product far less frightening than the smoggy, grey-orange sky in the background.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre is in constant contact with its U.S. counterpart and is going to need more help for the next little while, said spokesperson Jennifer Kamau. To be sure, the smoke has been hard not to notice in the U.S. capital, where President Joe Biden has repeatedly cited the pollution as evidence of encroaching climate change and urged residents to take precautions.
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