Nearly 14,000 people were under evacuation orders in Quebec on Saturday, and authorities said most of them are not expected to return home until at least early next week
Hundreds of wildfires continue to rage across the country, most of them in Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia, triggering new evacuations and preventing other residents from returning home.
Mr. Bonnardel said 861 personnel, including Canadian Armed Forces and foreign firefighters, were at work fighting 37 blazes out of the 121 raging across the province’s “intensive zone,” covering most of the inhabited territory. With 2,414 fires recorded and 4.5 million hectares burned this year as of Friday evening, according to the centre, this has been the most active start to a wildfire season on record.
“Because that fire is so out of control, some of the forestry crews have had to back off,” said Luc Mercier, chief administrative officer for Yellowhead County, in a video statement on one of the town’s Facebook pages. “They can’t fight that fire.” In B.C., there were 78 active wildfires, including 24 deemed out of control according to the online provincial emergency map. Evacuation orders due to wildfires remained in place for the Lytton First Nation, the Village of Lytton, the Peace River Regional District, and the District of Tumbler Ridge.
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