Canada’s wildfire season is ‘not slowing down,’ warns minister
Global News
Canada's Emergency Management Minister provided an update on Monday about the current wildfire activity, especially in western provinces and on the East Coast.
Western provinces and the East Coast should remain on alert for the possibility of more wildfire activity throughout the rest of summer, based on the latest federal government update.
Wide swaths of B.C. and the prairie provinces are expected to be drier and hotter than normal. Federal government forecasters also see above-average seasonal temperatures for most of the country over the next three months.
Typically in the more northern regions, fire activity starts to wind down around September as cooler weather sets in and the days grow shorter.
Not this year.
Federal bureaucrats said there’s a high likelihood that the large fires currently burning will continue well into the fall amid the higher temperatures.
“Wildfire season’s not slowing down,” Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said at a virtual press conference in Ottawa on Monday.
“Across the country, it’s been a really hot and dry summer and this has of course contributed to above-normal fire activity with fires in mainly British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and more recently in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.”
A heat wave and dry weather in recent weeks have raised alarm about the threat posed by fires in Atlantic Canada, with 21 that are currently burning across areas larger than 1,000 square kilometres in size.
The agency says more than 22,000 people have been removed from the country in the last 12 months, and nearly 30,000 removals were "in progress" as of Oct. 31.
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