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Data from the Canadian Interagency Wildfire Center (CIFFC) released on Saturday (15/7), said the incident broke the previous record which recorded just 7.3 million hectares of land burned during a full year in 1989.

To quote CGTNSunday (16/7), since January, 4,088 fires have been recorded, including many fires that have devoured hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, with an area that has burned comparable to the size of Portugal or the Iceland.

The impact was also felt by more than 150,000 people who had to be displaced by this fire.

A French fire detachment leader, Colonel Philippe Sansa, who was deployed to hard-hit northern Quebec, described the challenge officers faced.

“We have had to deal with fires that have spread for 65 kilometers, which poses a widespread challenge and requires a major organizing effort,” he said, adding that in British Columbia, about 2 000 firefighters would also fight more than 350 fires.

Meanwhile, authorities have requested the assistance of 1,000 additional international firefighters to help put out the fires that have burned 1.2 million hectares of forest in the provinces so far this year, a figure that exceeds far from the ten-year average of 76,000 hectares.

The fires occurred amid unprecedented hot and dry weather and are expected to continue across much of the province and storms accompanied by thunderstorms could spark more fires.

This condition is not only experienced in Canada, but most of the country would also experience severe drought, with below average rainfall and high temperatures.

Scientists point out that climate change is already accelerating warming in Canada and leading to an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.