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MONTREAL (AP) — Quebec is looking internationally for support as it struggles to battle more than 160 forest fires during what federal officials say is shaping up to be among Canada’s worst ...
Vermonters flock to Quebec in the summer for its cities and serene natural beauty, but this summer the province is struggling with forest fires that have wreaked havoc on northern lands.
June 24 (UPI) --Inmates held at a maximum security prison on Quebec's north shore have been evacuated due to intensifying forest fires, officials said. Correctional Service Canada said Sunday that ...
With the number of out-of-control forest fires across Quebec having quickly multiplied, the city of Sept-Îles on the province's North Shore has declared a local state of emergency and has put in ...
KEVIN BURTON HANDOUT/AFP via Getty Images The forest fires raging in western Quebec are the ones that concern the authorities the most on Saturday, said François Bonnardel, the minister of Public ...
The harrowing wild fires ripping through parts of western Canada are igniting bad memories in Quebec. In 2023, Montreal and large swaths of the province were blanketed in smoke as towns further ...
A 38-year-old Quebec man has been found guilty for starting a series of devastating forest fires - which lead to hectares worth of damage and displaced hundreds. Brian Paré has plead guilty to ...
Biologist Steeve Côté has seen forest fires engulf parts of the province of Quebec before and he knew it would happen again. He just didn't expect it so soon. Not long after the biology professor at ...
Quebec’s forest fire prevention agency says the area burned by wildfires this year was greater than the previous 20 years combined. SOPFEU director general Éric Rousseau told reporters today ...
The spree started just three days after the Quebec government banned open fires in or around the forest because of increasingly dry weather conditions. Investigators observed the string of five ...
A team from Quebec’s wildfire agency training French firefighters. A helicopter transported small teams deeper still into the forest, dropping them off at hotpoints. There, the French tried to ...