Quebec fires, Quebec forest fires

Monday, May 31, 2010 at 11:43 pm

Quebec fires, Quebec forest fires updates :-Forest fires raging in the province of Quebec sent smoke about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest, blanketing Montreal and extending as far away as Boston.

Quebec officials have evacuated about 2,000 people from their homes as firefighters battle 47 forest fires burning in Canada’s second-most populous province, including seven that are out of control. Most of the fires were caused by lightning strikes, said David Pelletier, a spokesman for the province’s civil security agency.

Flames have scorched about 880 square kilometers (352 square miles) of forest in the past week, mainly in Quebec’s Haute-Mauricie region, Robert Lemay, a spokesman for the provincial forest-fire protection agency SOPFEU, said today. Quebec Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau banned all civilians from the remote region on May 27.

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