Quebec hopes rain, outside help can be turning point in fight against fires
, 144 of them in Quebec. Canadian forest fires regularly occur in the summer but the scope of the current conflagration - and its early arrival - is unprecedented.
Federal meteorologist Gerald Cheng told reporters on Saturday that rain was expected starting on Sunday in southern Ontario and southwestern Quebec, which may help clear smoke. Officials say that by Monday there will be around 1,200 firefighters, including more than 100 from France, battling blazes across Quebec, a heavily wooded province of 8.5 million people that covers more territory than Germany, Spain and France combined.
Authorities in the Pacific province of British Columbia, where several small settlements have been evacuated, have made little mention of progress in the fight against blazes there.
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