Canada's government is sending the military to the Eastern province of Nova Scotia on Thursday to help tackle wildfires, and more U.S. firefighters will come to battle the early summer blazes, the minister responsible for emergencies said.
Nova Scotia is battling two large fires that are threatening communities on the outskirts of Halifax, the provincial capital. At the same time, the western province of Alberta has 61 wildfires, 16 of them out of control, officials said.
