While Canada does have a policy of letting fires in some remote areas burn out on their own, the government has also simply been overmatched by this year’s record-breaking fire season, which has so far burned more than 32,000 square miles.
. Of those, 285 are considered “out of control,” 195 and are “under control,” and 104 are “being held.”
“Massive fires burning in remote areas — like some of those currently burning in northwestern Quebec — are often too out of control to do anything about,”“With so many fires across the whole country, resources are scarce,” Dustan Mueller, a U.S.
“Given how much energy these fires have while they burn, it is pretty much impossible for them to stop unless large swaths of heavy rains come their way,” Apostolos Voulgarakis, a professor of climate change at Imperial College London,Unfortunately, the forecast for the rest of the summer in Canada “is for hot and mostly dry” weather, Canadian fire scientist Mike FlanniganEach Canadian province is responsible for fighting wildfires within its borders, so, for example, the neighboring provinces...
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