The smoke reached the United States and even Norway

Intense smoke from the 113 active forest fires in the Canadian province of Quebec it interferes with the operation of tanker aircraft and forces the extinguishing services to withdraw from certain areas. You Spanish firefighters who have been fighting fires for a week in the Mistissini and Lac Claverie regions of central Quebec have had to evacuate. Sources from the Spanish contingent said the 100 firefighters and helpers are now concentrated in the town of Chibougamau, about 500 kilometers north of Quebec. The Spanish firefighters, who are part of the European response to the call for help from the Canadato which Portugal It is France also responded, they arrived in the province from Canada on June 14 and are expected to return to Spain at the end of the month. However, smoke from the fires on Sunday 25 caused air quality in Montreal, Quebec’s main metropolis, to deteriorate to the lowest levels on the planet and the cancellation of many outdoor activities. Although the situation has improved in Montreal over the past few hours with the arrival of rain, extreme fire conditions persist in the province’s forests. Of the 113 active fires in Quebec, 29 are out of control. The fire forced the evacuation of thousands of residents of the province, including the 3,000 inhabitants of the Cree Aboriginal community of Mistissini. The situation in the rest of Canada is just as worrying. Across the country, 490 fires are currently active, causing the country’s worst fire season in modern history. Canadian authorities have directly pointed to climate change as responsible for the high number of fires, as well as their magnitude. In the province of British Columbia, on the Canadian Pacific coast, there are 100 active fires, after 16 more were recorded this Monday 26. Among them Donnie Creek, the largest fire in provincial history, which has already consumed 574,511 hectares of forest, an area equivalent to that of all of Costa Rica or Croatia.

*With information from EFE.