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More than 25,000 people in Canada are forced to leave their homes to escape from dozens of forest fires that have reduced air quality and visibility there and in several US states along the border.
Around 17,000 people living in Manitoba, a province in the middle Canadawhich stated that the emergency last week was moved, along with around 8,000 in the neighbor’s Saskatchewan and around 1,300 from Alberta. However, officials have warned that more can follow.
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency said air quality and visibility due to fire smoke “can fluctuate in short distances and can vary greatly from hours to hours. As the level of smoke increases, health risks increase.”
Prime Minister Saskatchewan Scott Moe blamed the new hot and dry weather, warning resources to extinguish fire and support refugees stretched thinly.
Mr Moe told reporters four to seven days “really important until we can find a way to change the weather pattern, and finally the rain soaking throughout the north”.
More than 5,000 people were forced to escape from Flin Flon, about 400 miles northwest of the capital of Winnipeg Province.
The firefighting crew has struggled to control the fire that threatened the city, which began a week ago near Creighton in Saskatchewan, but quickly crossed to Manitoba.
Water bombers have been grounded due to thick smoke and drone attacks.
On Friday, 175 active fires lit up, where 95 out of controlAccording to the center of the Canadian forest fires.
Evacuation orders must be removed at Cranberry Portage in North Manitoba, where around 600 people live, after the fire eliminates the power supply.
The US Department of Forestry Department of Agriculture deployed air tankers to Alberta and said he would send 150 firefighters and equipment to Canada.
The unhealthy level of air quality is recorded on Sundays in North Dakota and small areas of Montana, Minnesota and South Dakota, according to the AIRNOW AIRNOW US Environmental Protection Agency.
US national weather service meteorologist Bryan Jackson said people could expect “at least a few rounds of Canadian smoke coming through the US during the next week”.
Separately, the fire in the US border state in Idaho burned 50 hectares and pushed the road closure, according to the Idaho State Police.
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The evacuation center has been opened in all manitoba for those who escaped the fire, one in the south to Winkler, 12 miles from the US border.
Canadian sparrows took place from May to September and the worst was in 2023, when dirty smoke exploded throughout North America, which was famous for spreading unpleasant, Orange sky to New York.
