The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The U.S. Northeast woke up to a "horribly smoky day" on Wednesday (June 7) as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from wildfires in Canada across the Atlantic Coast.

Air quality has plunged in the East and parts of the Midwest due to record-shattering Canadian fires.

Wildfires have set millions of acres ablaze across Canada so far in 2023 as the air quality affected the metropolitan areas.

Northern Quebec’s largest town was being evacuated while another that had been threatened by wildfires lifted an evacuation order Tuesday, as authorities turned their attention to communities in the northern and northwestern parts of the province where firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes

Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.

Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning

A blaze ripped through a tenement building on South Bridge on Saturday afternoon.

One of the pilots from the Defence helicopter that started the devastating January 2020 Orroral Valley fire near Canberra tells a coronial inquest he was totally focused on getting his passengers to safety.

"It smelt like someone was burning rubbish in their garden"