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Smoke From Wildfires in Canada Drifts Across Northeastern United States

More than 400 wildfires were burning across Canada on Monday, June 5, with 249 of the blazes still considered to be out of control, Canada’s Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said.

Satellite footage provided by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere shows wildfire smoke spreading down into northeastern United States on June 5.

Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s environment and climate change minister, has described this year as “already … one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.” Credit: CIRA via Storyful

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