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Wildfires broke record in 2015 - scorching an area seven times the size of Toronto
2016-01-11 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Wildfires scorched a record amount of Canadas national parks last year the latest in a number of long, hot summers that have almost entirely depleted Parks Canadas firefighting reserve. We had a very busy fire year, said director of fire management Jeff Weir. We had more wildfires than normal and those fires burned larger areas than normal. The agencys annual fire report recorded 122 wildfires in 2015 that burned through 4,600 square kilometres seven times the area of the city of Toronto....
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