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The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Warning to travellers flying to New York amid Canada wildfires

Smoke from the wildfires has spread across the US east coast causing flight delays

Manchester Evening News

‘Never experienced anything like this’: readers on Canada wildfires smoke and air pollution

From breathing in particles to wearing masks again, Guardian readers have told us how they have been affected by the wildfires smoke

The Guardian - US

Large wildfire rips into forest as it burns overnight

The fire and rescue service confirmed that the incident is still ongoing, and that the fire has been classed as a category 2 wildfire

Wales Online

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First Thing: Millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south

Eastern states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada. Plus, will Trump’s once loyal deputy become his nemesis?

The Guardian - UK

Canada wildfires MAPPED as millions told to wear masks and avoid outdoors

Over the past six weeks, massive wildfires have spread across Canada, burning more than 3.3 million hectares of land - an area 12 times the 10-year average for this time of year

Daily Mirror

Why is New York City’s air quality so bad?

Pollution from Canadian wildfires has made New York’s air quality the worst of any city in the world

Evening Standard

Fire Brigade battle large gorse fires just outside of Galway city

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said gorse fires are banned between March 1 and September 1 to 'protect wildlife'

Irish Mirror

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'Extreme' wildfire warning issued for most of Scotland as temperatures soar

The SFRS warned rural and remote communities are at particular risk, as firefighters continue tackling an inferno in Cannich which began on Sunday May 28.

Daily Record

France to send dozens of firefighters to Canada to fight raging wildfires in Quebec

French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to send about a hundred firefighters to Quebec, Canada, to help in the effort to battle hundreds of uncontrolled forest fires that have forced evacuations and sent a blanket of smoky air across the United States’ east coast.

Radio France Internationale

Millions of people forced indoors as wildfire haze smothers US cities

Major US cities including New York are choking under a dangerous blanket of smoke from hundreds of wildfires raging in Canada.

The New Daily

Canada’s record wildfires should be ‘wake-up call’, experts warn

Images of orange, hazy skies across Canada and parts of US fuel calls to tackle climate crisis making wildfires worse.

Al Jazeera

How to keep safe as wildfire smoke chokes eastern US skies

Exposure to smoke can trigger an array of health problems, experts say, but there are ways residents can stay safe

The Guardian - US

Satellite photos show US East Coast engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires

The U.S. Northeast woke up to a "horribly smoky day" on Wednesday (June 7) as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from wildfires in Canada across the Atlantic Coast.

Space

Smoke from Canadian wildfires leads to record poor air quality in eastern U.S.

Air quality has plunged in the East and parts of the Midwest due to record-shattering Canadian fires.

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The Guardian - US

Canada wildfires smoke: climate change ‘accelerated conditions’, says New York mayor as Canada battles more than 400 blazes – as it happened

Eric Adams remarks come as city briefly ranked world’s worst for air pollution; more firefighters to be mobilised as over 200 blazes are out of control

Daily Record

Lorry bursts into flames on quiet Scots road as person rushed to hospital

The entire orange truck was consumed by an inferno in Strathaven, Lanarkshire, on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Statue of Liberty shrouded in smoke from Canada wildfires

High-risk air quality warnings issued for millions across North America as smoke from blazes blanket cities

Zenger

Poor Air Quality Grips The New York Metropolitan Area As The Canadian Wildfire Goes On

A fiery, red sun rose in a sky packed with smoke Tuesday morning unusual for New York with strong haze coming from Canada.

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Zenger

As Historic Canadian Wildfire Season Rages As The Haze Of Smoke Moves Into The U.S.

Wildfires have set millions of acres ablaze across Canada so far in 2023 as the air quality affected the metropolitan areas.

The Independent UK

Quebec confronts 150 wildfires, effects felt as far away as New York City, New England

Northern Quebec’s largest town was being evacuated while another that had been threatened by wildfires lifted an evacuation order Tuesday, as authorities turned their attention to communities in the northern and northwestern parts of the province where firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes

France 24

Continuing wildfires in Canada prompt air quality warnings in northeastern US

Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.

The Independent UK

Canada wildfires lead to air-quality alerts in US, here's how to stay safe

Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning

Daily Record

Investigators scour scene of Edinburgh flat fire as probe launched

A blaze ripped through a tenement building on South Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

ABC News

Defence helicopter pilot denies failure to alert authorities to Orroral Valley bushfire was due to fear of tarnishing military's reputation

One of the pilots from the Defence helicopter that started the devastating January 2020 Orroral Valley fire near Canberra tells a coronial inquest he was totally focused on getting his passengers to safety.

Nottingham Post

Residents' shock as fire breaks out in 'lovely' former school building in town centre

"It smelt like someone was burning rubbish in their garden"

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