Canada battles wildfires in British Columbia with hundred dead on heat wave

As Canada battles wildfires from its west coast to the valleys, another heat wave threatens to recede this week in British Columbia, where more than a million acres [2 million] have burned since April 2021.

In recent months, a series of chronic heat waves and extreme droughts associated with climate change have helped put an end to veld fires.

More than 130 wildfires are burning across Canada following a record-breaking heatwave.

In Manitoba, the drought has forced livestock farmers to consider selling some or all of their cattle. With rising temperatures, in northwestern Ontario is also monitoring the outbreak of fires later this week, provincial fire officials said on Twitter.

Earlier this week, people had to flee the villages. Many individuals have been cautioned they may need to leave their homes.

Health authorities say outrageous warmth is probably going to have added 719 unexpected passings.

Dangers from these fires have been shown in southern Oregon, where the Bootleg Fire grew so big and hot that it created its own climate, creating lightning and emitting very high smoke.

The hot and dry conditions expected this week could increase infernos, Forrest Tower, a spokesman for the British Columbia Wildfire Service, said in a statement released by the department on Sunday.

Near the southern part of the province, the Okanagan region, about 200 miles north of the Washington border, a wildfire that has been uncontrollably since July 13 now covers more than 137,000 acres, the wildfire service estimates. About 300 firefighters, as well as more than a dozen helicopters and other heavy equipment, fought the blaze, but so far have not been able to contain the blaze.

Temperatures in the interior of British Columbia could reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this week, said Bobby Sekhon, a state-of-the-art meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada, a government agency. High temperatures could make it extremely difficult to extinguish fires, as evidenced by the historic heat extermination in June, when British Columbia workers battled overheated helicopters and other equipment failures.

Smoke from wildfires from Canada and the Western United States hit the mainland last month, covering the sky with humidity and causing health warnings from Toronto to Philadelphia, with officials in some areas recommending that people stay indoors with their windows closed.

The total number of wildfires in Canada this year has already exceeded the country's 10-year average by at least 30 percent, months before the fire, according to data released by Natural Resources Canada.