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Experts say climate change is driving up the risk of wildfires in Canada

OTTAWA — Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now.
 
More than 12.5 million hectares of bushland have burned in Australia since October and prime forest-fire season is just now getting underway.
 
Multiple heat waves and a lengthy and widespread drought left much of the country, including some of its most populated regions, at higher risk for fire than ever before.
 
To date the fires have killed 25 people and an estimated 500 million animals, and destroyed almost 1,900 homes. More than 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate to escape the flames.
 
“What’s happening in Australia now is extraordinary,” said Ed Struzik, a fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University.
 
And he says, Canada is not immune to seeing the same thing.

 

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