Just how bad are the fires in Canada anyway?

Very similar here. Dry and hot. Seems we will get the occasional shower once every ten days, but does no good.

Also the majority of standing trees in the area are dead pine, from pine beetle. Or as we call it-standing firewood.

Most of the smoke going south is from Saskatchewan. There are 400,000 hectares burning now - that's 988,421 acres - in Saskatchewan. Nearly a million acres. Hard for me to visualize that.

Over 2 million hectares for all provinces combined. That's around 5 million acres and increasing every hour.

1,000 Canadian Forces troops have been sent to Sask. to help. Other eastern provinces are sending some of their firefighters to all other western provinces effected. Word is there may also be some firefighter crews from USA and Australia arriving in British Columbia which now has 200 uncontained fires and is estimated to be gaining 30 new fires each day now.

I don't know how bad the fires are, but the air quality has contributed to my asthma going buggy. Sure hope the people up there are OK. Praying for the air to clear and help relieve my asthma too.

There are people suffering terribly. I have family in Saskatchewan who have significant health issues and have literally been shut in their homes for a couple weeks and another family member who's health is delicate enough that they had to leave the province. I would have gladly put them up but they're staying with our our cousin in Oregon.

I bet. I was stunned when I started feeling bad and my mil and hubby said our air quality was being affected by stuff so far away.

Good thoughts and prayers for a much bigger area of people than I would have imagined were having to deal with this.