MONTREAL — Canada's Quebec province, hit hard by unprecedented wildfires that have ravaged the country, on Wednesday (June 7) eagerly awaited the arrival of reinforcements from abroad to help beat back blazes that are overwhelming its firefighting capacity.
After major flareups in the country's west in May, firefighting efforts recently shifted to Nova Scotia on the Atlantic coast, before this week moving to Quebec, which is now the epicentre of the crisis.
But Quebec Premier Francois Legault lamented that no significant rain is forecast before Monday evening, and worried about a shortage of resources.Quebec has deployed hundreds of firefighters, with help expected from France and the United States in the coming days. Canada has been hit repeatedly by extreme weather in recent years, the intensity and frequency of which have increased due to global warming.As of Wednesday, about 3.8 million hectares had been scorched and more than 20,000 people remained displaced across Canada, but that figure was expected to rise as thousands more in Quebec were ordered to leave their homes by the end of the day.
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