This is a more than welcome help. For more than a month, Canada has been facing forest fires on an unprecedented scale. After the west, it is now the east of the country that faces these giant fires. In Quebec in particular - where more than 10,000 people had to evacuate - the situation remains critical.
Faced with this situation, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron announced on Twitter that a "hundred" French firefighters would be sent to Canada "alongside their Quebec comrades". "Experts are also mobilized," the head of state also noted. "Canadian friends, reinforcements are coming."
In response, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the two countries were "the closest friends and strongest partners there are." "On behalf of the Canadian people, and in particular those affected by the forest fires: thank you," Justin Trudeau also wrote on Twitter, in response to Emmanuel Macron.
Increased international assistance
According to Radio Canada, international assistance will be broader. About 700 firefighters from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are expected to arrive across Canada in the next two weeks.
According to the Minister of Public Security of Quebec, François Bonnardel this Sunday morning quoted by Radio Canada, Quebec firefighters are concentrated on thirty fires in the province. There are nearly 150 still active in Quebec alone.
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Further east, 85% of the forest fire that threatened the capital of Nova Scotia, Halifax had been brought under control this Saturday morning according to the authorities, moving the situation from "out of control" to "stable". The rain came to relieve the fierce fight of the firefighters. "That said, the fire is not extinguished and will not be declared extinguished for some time," said Dave Steeves of the provincial Department of Natural Resources. On Friday evening, half of the 16,000 people evacuated from the suburbs northeast of Halifax were allowed to return home.