A wildfire on Canada's Atlantic coast has damaged about 200 houses and other structures and prompted the evacuation of 16,000 people, many of whom were eager to return Tuesday to see whether homes and pets had survived.
Early last week, the National Weather ServiceOn May 19, fires in Alberta, closer to Canada's western coast, prompted air quality alerts in several western and midwestern American states, including Nebraska, Washington, Montana and Wisconsin, with a special weather statement issued about air quality in Wyoming.
Dan Cavanaugh was among two dozen people waiting Tuesday in a Halifax-area parking lot to learn if their suburban homes had been consumed by the wildfire. Sarah Lyon of the Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said an eight-member team was preparing to head out into the evacuation zone to retrieve animals left behind.
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