Wildfires spread in the western Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday, while hundreds of fires continued to burn on the other side of the country in Quebec, sending wildfire smoke billowing across North American cities.
Around 2,500 people were told to evacuate the community of Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia on Thursday afternoon.
In neighboring Alberta more than 3,500 people remain under evacuation orders and heat warnings were in effect over much of the central part of the province. Canada is enduring its worst start to the wildfire season. There have been 2,372 fires so far this year and 4.3 million hectares burned, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre , roughly 15 times the annual average over the last decade.
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