Smoke shrouded Western Canada on Monday as wildfires flared again in the main oil-producing province of Alberta, while firefighters in Quebec doused some of the worst early season blazes, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home.
Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire season, with about 4.8 million hectares - an area larger than the Netherlands in western Europe - already burnt.- and its early arrival - are unprecedented. On Monday, some 449 fires were burning across Canada, including 219 out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
"If you look at western Canada, it's completely covered by the smoke and that continues into Tuesday," federal meteorologist Gerald Cheng told reporters on Monday. "The risk for smoke is very high because the winds are really transporting the smoke throughout Alberta today and even into Tuesday." The fires in Alberta are sending plumes of smoke eastward over prairie provinces Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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