US wildfires worsen, reach Canada

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 15, 2021 1:05 am

CALABASAS: Wildfires were burning across more than 1 million acres of the western United States as it reached Canada on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) and scorching temperatures held their grip on areas reeling from a brutal weekend heat wave.

Some 850,000 acres were on fire in the United States - mainly in western states such as Oregon, California and Arizona - while more than 300,000 acres smoldered in Canada's British Columbia alone, according to wildfire officials.

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