Canada Wildfier: Port Albarni is threatened as 20,000 fire on standby; Smoke spreads for us, Europe

Around 20,000 people in western Canada were on standby on Wednesday, as a wildfire was swept away in Mount Underwood, the city’s unseen. Officials say the explosion is “out of control” and may spread further. Wildfires are also threatening other parts of the country. In Newfoundland and Labrador, parts of Capital St. John were ordered to be evacuated on Tuesday after a fire. In Nova Scotia, a blast was burning for about half a million people on the outskirts of Halifax.

Till Wednesday, more than 700 wildfires were burning throughout Canada, with 161 out of control. Smoke has triggered air quality alerts for tens of million in Canada and America, and traveled in Atlantic, reaching parts of Western Europe. This year earlier is the second worst wildfire season in Canada as the record began in 1983, 7.4 million hectares of burning, which was the larger area as Panama. The worst was in 2023, when 17.3 million hectares were destroyed. Experts say that climate change is increasing the risk of fire, with high temperatures, low ice, small winter and earlier summer. Fire along the coast, once rare, is now being reported more often.