Early, Intense Wildfire Season Makes Canada U.S. Resource Sharing Impossible: Ottawa

Early, Intense Wildfire Season Makes Canada U.S. Resource Sharing Impossible: Ottawa
A pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, forms in the sky as the Tremont Creek wildfire burns on the mountains above Ashcroft, B.C., on July 16, 2021. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press
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The federal government says neither Canada nor the United States can lend each other any extra firefighters as they deal with one of the most severe wildfire seasons in recent memory.

Last year, Canada sent 529 front−line crew members, 62 supervisory teams and a number of aircraft to help the U.S. battle rampant wildfires in California and the Pacific Northwest.