2023-06-02 00:17:17
In view of the large forest fires in Canada, more foreign firefighters are to help local authorities. According to the Canadian news agency “Canadian Press”, more than 300 emergency services from the USA and South Africa are expected to arrive in the second largest country in the world in terms of area in the coming days and to help in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Alberta.
According to the public TV broadcaster CBC, more than 2,000 firefighters are deployed in the particularly affected region of Alberta alone – 800 of them come from the USA, 224 from Australia and New Zealand.
Huge areas have been on fire in several Canadian provinces for weeks. In the eastern region of Nova Scotia, more than 16,000 people recently had to leave their homes, according to the city of Halifax. According to estimates from the beginning of the week, around 200 buildings were damaged. Canada’s west has also been fighting forest fires for weeks. More than 546 fires have burned more than a million acres in Alberta this year, according to authorities. That is almost the size of Upper Austria. According to the authorities, the fires were caused by people in more than half of the cases, with 59 fires being caused by lightning strikes.
With climate change, experts warn that wildfires will become more frequent and more destructive. In the prairie provinces of western Canada, the average temperature has risen by 1.9 degrees Celsius since the mid-20th century, according to the Canada Agency for Environment and Climate Change.
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