“Never before seen,” was thrown around, as was “exceptional in scale, duration” and “huge long-term consequences.” “We have shattered all the records on a Canadian scale,” says a shaken Yan Boulanger, a researcher for the country’s natural resources ministry. There had never been so many areas burned — 18 million hectares (70,000 square miles), via 6,400 fires — or so many people evacuated, at more than 200,000. “It’s an impressive wake-up call because we didn’t necessarily expect it so quickly, even if the potential was there,” Boulanger, a forest fire specialist at Natural Resources Canada, told AFP. In Quebec, hard hit and less accustomed than the west to very large fires
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