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The fire covered 14,300 hectares, but on July 26 the evacuation order was lifted. [40] Wildfire smoke fills the Slocan Valley on July 27. The village of Slocan, visible at the bottom of the lake, was evacuated. A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake.
Although Nova Scotia sent a team of 20 firefighters to the NWT on May 25, they were recalled on May 29 due to the worsening wildfire situation in their home province. [144] On June 6, the Canadian government announced that they and the Government of the Northwest Territories would match United Way donations for disaster relief in the region. [233]
Wildfire smoke from Canada captivated the East Coast this week, but data shows that much of the United States has been dealing with smoke since early May. Maps: Canadian wildfire smoke has covered ...
2015 Canadian wildfires were a series of wildfires across Canada and Alaska in June 2015 which spread smoke across most of North America. Over two hundred fires were ablaze across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. [1] Tens of thousand of people had been evacuated and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned ...
Wildfire smoke map. More: Mapping smoke from Canada: As wildfires burn, check the air quality in your area. How toxic wildfire smoke affects your health.
NWT Fire said the 163,000 hectare (402,781 acres) wildfire is currently 17 km from Yellowknife and would likely reach Highway 3, the only highway connecting the city to the rest of Canada, on ...
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]
New York City resembled an alien world last week as thick smoke from wildfires burning in Canada was blown across the Northeast, causing air quality to reach dangerous levels. Millions across ...