Wildfire smoke has increasingly choked the U.S. Air quality statements remain in effect in parts of six provinces. The City of Toronto says it is adjusting programming in response to the air quality, with some city-run outdoor recreation programs being cancelled or moved indoors while outdoor activities at city-run daycares have been suspended.Įnvironment Canada dropped its special air quality statements for the capital of Ottawa, but residents are still encouraged to limit outdoor activities. Schools in Toronto and the nearby York Region moved recess and other outdoor events indoors. Smoke from wildfires in Ontario and Quebec are moving over Toronto, bringing hazy skies and poor air quality to Canada’s most populous city and leading Environment and Climate Change Canada to issue a special air quality statement for the city. Since the start of the crisis, 648 wildland fire personnel have mobilized, he said, but around half have finished their assignments and returned home.ĭemocratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, urged Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to “double the number” of Forest Service personnel deployed to fight the fires in Canada. An additional 170 personnel from other agencies are also deployed, he said. Forest Service has more than 200 people on the ground in Canada, said John Winn, an agency spokesman. and Canada have long shared firefighting resources, and that Canada has supported the U.S. Jeffrey Rupert, director of the Office of Wildland Fire for the Interior Department, told a Senate hearing that the U.S. have been deployed to Canada to respond to the wildfires there, Biden said in a statement Thursday, adding that he offered additional help to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
More than 600 firefighters and other personnel from the U.S. Drought and rising heat bring unusual wildfire warnings in northern Europe
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