Canada's record-breaking wildfire season has now seen 100,000 square kilometres of land scorched as blazes continue to burn out of control across the entire country.
"There are some very, very large fires still burning and a number of them are out of control so that number is going to continue to rise," Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said in an interview Thursday of the vast amount of land that's burned.
The majority of blazes are now in Western Canada, and British Columbia has the greatest number, with more than 370 of the country's 878 active fires, Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre data shows.The Northwest Territories reported Sunday that a firefighter died from an injury sustained while battling a fire near his home community of Fort Liard the day before. No other information will be released until his family has been notified.
Based on forecasted conditions, Natural Resources Canada expects the wildfire season will continue to be unusually intense throughout July and into August. The good news, Blair said, is that conditions are expected to improve significantly in Eastern Canada if the seven-day weather forecast holds true.
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