‘All I saw was orange’: Ontario requests military aid to fight wildfires

Wildfires rage across Canada

Tens of thousands of Canadians have been forced from their homes as wildfires burn across huge swathes of the country, threatening dozens of small, remote Indigenous communities.

‘I want to go home’: Raging wildfires threaten their Northern Ontario community. Now they’re grappling with life in Toronto hotels

The fly-in community of Deer Lake, Ontario — from infants to great grandmothers — take shelter in a cluster of hotels near Pearson airport, waiting until they can return home.

‘All I saw was orange’: Ontario requests military aid to fight wildfires

More than 225 wildfires are active across Canada, at least 100 of which are out of control

Over 100 wildfires currently out of control across Canada, report says

There are over 100 non-contained wildfires currently happening across Canada. A report today on behalf of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada indicated that numerous ministries gathered to assess the ongoing summer wildfire season across provinces. As part of this assessment, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience–Eleanor Olszewski–reported that there are currently 225 wildfires in Canada, with 121 of them out of c…

Canada’s ongoing wildfires emit toxic smoke, trigger international deployments – Wildfire Today

Canadian firefighters are battling 225 active wildfires throughout the nation as of Wednesday, including 101 fires labeled as “out of control,” according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Numerous evacuation orders are in place throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba provinces. Local officials have declared multiple states of emergency as over 8,318,000 acres (3,366,566 hectares) have burned across the coun…

June 10 Wildfire Update – Heartland News

The Government of Alberta released a wildfire situation update on June 10th, advising individuals as to what fires are currently burning and any other key information. There are currently 60 wildfires burning across the province in the Forest Protection Area, with 25 of them being considered out of control. Seven of them are being held and 28 of them are considered under control. There have been almost 600 wildfires across the province since the…