Forest Fire (10025 ha) in Australia 20 May 2023

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A federal fleet of water bombers could help control forest fires Glenn McGillivray6 minutes ago

2023-06-16T14:07:00(theglobeandmail)

Glenn McGillivray is managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and adjunct professor of disaster and emergency management at York University. This year’s wildfire season is already the most severe one this century, with 449 fires burning across Canada as of June 12, and roughly half of them deemed out of control.

South Africa sends hundreds of firefighters to Canada

2023-06-16T08:31:00(EastAfrican)

Fire fighters from the environmental protection organisation, Working On Fire, sing and dance during a training session at the Kishugu Training Centre in Mbombela, South Africa on June 13, 2023. The fire fighters are part of 200 firefighters being sent to Alberta, Canada, to help with ongoing fire suppression efforts.

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