Nearly 10,000 coastal Quebec residents were forced to evacuate their homes on Friday as wildfires hit more Canadian provinces in what is already shaping up to be one of the worst starts to the wildfire season.
The mayor of Sept-Iles, a coastal city in Quebec, declared a local state of emergency on Friday as the risk of fire led to evacuation orders in the region.
Quebec Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel said he had approached the federal government to ask for help from the army.
The Canadian Armed Forces have been deployed in the west of the country since early May, and troops were deployed to the province of Nova Scotia on Thursday. Help also came from the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and reinforcements are expected next week.
About 30,000 people across Canada are homeless as a result of wildfires in nearly every province across the country.
More than 2.7 million hectares have been devastated so far this year across the country, the equivalent of more than five million American football fields, Federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair has said more than 10 times the average area typically burned at this time of year over the past decade.
Source: CNN Brasil
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