Rapidly-spreading fires are threatening to burn through Canadian towns and degrading air quality
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By Mary Gilbert and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality.
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Western Canada blazes cause evacuation orders, air quality concerns
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Rapidly-spreading fires are threatening to burn through Canadian towns and degrading air quality
TORONTO — The season’s first major wildfires have spread to roughly 19,000 acres across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities issued an evacuation order for a community in British Columbia and warned of poor air quality across provinces.
Authorities are ordering people to evacuate as wildfires rage across British Columbia. In 2023, intense Canadian fires sent smoke drifting into cities across the northeastern United States.
Almost a year to the date from the explosive start to the 2023 fire season, hundreds of fires have erupted in Canada, including a dozen major and out-of-control blazes.
By Mary Gilbert and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality.
States could be in for another summer of unhealthy wildfire smoke as ‘zombie fires’ resurface in western Canada and more blazes break out in the dry conditions.
