Out-of-control blazes rage at both ends of country, sending or keeping people out of their homes
Wildfires continued to rage on both ends of the country Sunday, burning homes in Nova Scotia and keeping thousands of Albertans under evacuation orders.
“We’ve got multiple resources, a couple of dozen crews up there now working on it, trying to get some means of containment, but it’s going to be a long event,” he said, adding that two helicopters were brought in to fight the fire. In the province’s southwest, another out-of-control fire nearly doubled in size in a matter of hours Sunday.
In Alberta, where wildfires have been burning for weeks after an unseasonably warm and dry spring, people continued to be allowed back into their homes this past weekend, but officials warned that fire-prone conditions in the coming days could trigger even more wildfires. Climate hazards, including heat waves and wildfire activity, have already intensified across North America and are projected to continue,the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international body of hundreds of climate scientists.
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