Residents of northwestern Ontario say their warnings about fires they spotted were dismissed and official information as the flames spread often didn’t come at all.
Swaths of burned forest from the Dryden 35 Wildfire, part of a series of wildfires that forced many to flee their homes in Northwestern Ontario this month.
Until recently, France’s forest fires were mostly in the south. This week, fires are raging much farther north. France is having to rethink its firefighting strategy.
The fire on Thursday morning at an orphanage near the nation’s capital killed 11 people, including children, and injured a dozen, the authorities said.
The police at the entrance to an orphanage in Mohammadia, a suburb of Algiers, after a fatal fire on Thursday. Algeria’s president said children were among the dead.
Air quality in Canada’s largest city was at times the worst in the world on Wednesday, as wildfires across Ontario sent smoke drifting into New York City and beyond.
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