Wildfires ravage forests in Canada
Pastor Dale Morgan
Wildfires ravage forests in Canada*
MONTREAL, May 27 (AFP) May 28, 2007
Wildfires burning out of control have destroyed vast swaths of forest
over recent days in the eastern Canadian province of Quebec, authorities
and media said Sunday.
Hundreds of firefighters including reinforcements from other provinces
and the United States battled the blazes, which have ravaged more than
62,000 hectares (153,000 acres) in northern Quebec.
In the Sept-Iles region of the French-speaking province 1,500 natives
had to be briefly evacuated from a reservation over the weekend due to a
fire.
A spokesman for a Quebec fire prevention agency, Jacques Nadeau, told
AFP Sunday 26 fires were burning, of which six were "out of control."
No casualties had yet been reported.
He said lightning and dry weather had contributed to the blazes.