Quebec was on the offensive in its battle against a record wildfire season as gusting winds fuelled growing blazes out West, and the federal government said it would provide free travel documents and visa extensions for people affected across the cou
"This now qualifies, unfortunately, as Canada's worst wildfire season of the 21st century," Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said in Ottawa.
The international effort has seen some success in Quebec, where thousands of people were starting to return to their homes. Across the country, however, nearly 32,000 people remained out of their homes because of smoke and raging wildfires. Sixty members of the Canadian Armed Forces have been sent to Nova Scotia, where firefighters were preparing to take to the sky in a new tactic to tackle the largest wildfire recorded in that province.
The military was also planning to deploy more members to Alberta, where a fire west of Edmonton has been growing rapidly. Edson, a town of 8,400 people, was evacuated Friday — the second time in the last few weeks."I've kind of had bags kept in the bedroom because I didn't feel it was a good time to unpack yet with the weather being so crazy,” Wilson said Sunday at a campground east of Edmonton, where she and her husband have taken refuge in their camper.
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