Canadian officials paint a grim picture of 'higher-than-normal' fire activity the country is expecting through August.
FILE - A man runs in front of the sun rising over the lower Manhattan skyline in Jersey City, N.J., June 8, 2023. Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life â and death.
We [Quebec] usually see an average of 440 forest fires a year," CIFFC's Quebec spokesman Nicolas Vigneauld tells TND. "Since the beginning of 2023, our province has seen 445 registered fires.", Natural Resource Canada briefed government agencies on the dire situation facing their country. According to public land records, the amount of Canadian land burned is slightly more than the entire size of the State of Maryland, which comes in at 7.9 million total acres.Sen Manchin questions effectiveness of federal spending on Forest Service as nation deals with wildfire smoke
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