Wildfires - Saskatchewan, Canada
According to the Saskatchewan government, the combined total area of wildfires burning in the province is 300,000 hectares with more than 13 000 homes evacuated.
Wildfire numbers:
112: Active burning fires
25: Not contained
9: New since Sunday, July 5
56: Larger than 100 hectares
575: Total wildfires this year, so far as against 205: Total wildfires last year
1,400: Canadian Armed Forces members deployed to help fight fires
Wildfires - Saskatchewan, Canada
The military has been called in to help care for 7,900 people from a northern Saskatchewan community that includes the province's largest First Nation, as a rash of wildfires prompts a massive evacuation. Up to 5,000 of the evacuees will be taken hundreds of kilometres away to a refuge in Cold Lake, Alta., staffed by the Canadian Forces and the Red Cross.
After the wildfires crossed fail-safe lines Saturday, coming within eight kilometres of the community of La Ronge, the provincial government and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band began evacuating out 7,900 residents remaining in the area.
Wildfires - Alaska
After a winter marked by little snow and warmer temperatures, fire crews in Alaska are tackling two large wildfires burning on mostly treeless tundra in the southwest part of the state.
Weekend rain helped tamp down the lightning-caused fires that, through Monday, have burned 63 square miles in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
Wildfires - Canada
Smoke from wildfires have forced more than 700 people from their homes across northern Saskatchewan. Many of the evacuees are staying with friends and family in Prince Albert or Saskatoon, a Social Services spokesperson says.
The largest fire is south of La Loche and fire crews have yet to contain it. There are about dour dozen active blazes in the area. One-third of the fires started by lightning over the weekend have been contained.
