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This is a list of fires in Canada. Numbers for buildings only include those destroyed, and area is given in hectares and is converted to acres. Numbers for buildings only include those destroyed, and area is given in hectares and is converted to acres.
Kings (also known as king's cup, donut, circle of death or ring of fire) is a drinking game using playing cards. Players must drink and dispense drinks based on cards drawn. The cards have predetermined drink rules prior to the game's beginning. Often groups establish house rules with their own game variations.
Smoke from fires reduced air quality through the United States and Canada and reached as far as Mexico and Europe. There have been two fatalities reported related to the fires: a firefighter killed by a falling tree in Alberta, and a helicopter pilot in the Northwest Territories who crashed while assisting with wildfire management.
So far, there have been 4,024 wildfires across Canada, scorching more than 23.5 million acres, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. That already exceeds the record of 18.7 ...
There have been 3,055 fires so far this year in Canada, destroying more than 30,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Switzerland. The fires caused air quality to plummet across large parts ...
More than 100 blazes are burning across Canada Monday, with several major wildfires prompting evacuations for hundreds of residents and threatening to swallow up communities.
The fires that started in the Tantallon area were caused by a resident who was burning debris in their yard. The resident was warned by the fire department, but continued to burn debris until it got out of control. The fires that started in the Shelburne area were caused by three residents who were lighting tires on fire and rolling them down a ...
In 2008 and 2009, researchers with Natural Resources Canada and the University of Victoria conducted airborne surveys of several boreal forest fires, including the Chinchaga. Using polarimetric analysis, they arrived at a final estimate of that was considerably larger than previous estimates, placing the total burned area at 1,700,000 hectares ...