Coastal city in Quebec orders some 10,000 residents to evacuate homes as wildfires spread in eastern Canada and stretch firefighting resources already tackling more than 210 blazes across the country
Officials hoped rain and cooler weather forecast for the weekend following a record-breaking heat wave will bring relief.
"This is a scary time for a lot of people from coast to coast to coast," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. More than 2.7 million hectares have been scorched so far this year across the country, equal to more than five million football fields, federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair has said.
In a Friday morning briefing, Blair said there were 214 fires burning across Canada, 93 out of control, and 29,000 people evacuated."Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - they are all experiencing interface wildfires," he said, referring to fires that have the potential to impact buildings and forest fuel or vegetation simultaneously.
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