French president Emmanuel Macron has promised to send about a hundred firefighters to Quebec, Canada, to help in the effort to battle hundreds of uncontrolled forest fires that have forced evacuations and sent a blanket of smoky air across the United States’ east coast.
Hundreds of forest fires have burned 3.8 million hectares of land and forced 120,000 people from their homes since March, in an unusually early and intense start to Canada’s wildfire season.
