Park Fire Balloons in California as Smoke Spreads in Northwest and Western Canada

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Park ***** Balloons in California as Smoke Spreads in Northwest and Western Canada

Wildfires spread across Northern California and western Canada on Thursday, leaving officials issuing evacuation orders, broadcasting air quality warnings and sending tens of thousands of firefighters to combat the blazes.

The Park ***** in Northern California, which has burned more than

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, is the largest there so far this year, after it ballooned overnight. The ***** was one of hundreds burning in the western ******* States and western Canada, creating smoky skies.

In Northern California, the authorities

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for parts of Tehama County and Butte County, where the Park ***** had started on Wednesday in Bidwell Park, a large recreational area with hiking and biking trails and swimming holes, in the city of Chico. The ***** swelled in the early morning hours on Thursday and was 3 percent contained.

The California Department of Forestry and ***** Protection

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that firefighters were focused on evacuations and protecting structures, while also using bulldozers and ***** crews to build lines to contain the *****.

There were also 43 active wildfires in Oregon and Washington

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, according to the National Interagency ***** Center. Many fires are exhibiting “extreme ***** behavior,” the center said.

The Durkee ***** in Oregon, near the border with Idaho, is the largest wildfire in the ******* States, covering more than 268,000 acres as of

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, according to the National Interagency ***** Center.

Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, said in a statement on Wednesday that fires in the eastern part of the state had “scaled up quickly,”

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“We are facing strong erratic winds over the region that could impact all fires,” the governor said. “Rain is not getting through. Some communities do not have power.”

The authorities in Oregon issued

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for several counties, saying that the wildfires and strong winds could combine to raise pollutants to unhealthy levels. There were

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in effect in parts of Washington and Idaho, with residents advised to limit their time outdoors.

The fires in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada have raised fears of a repeat of last year, when record wildfires in various parts of Canada blanketed areas as far south as Florida with dangerous smoke and haze.

In Canada,

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on Thursday in the province of Alberta, where thousands of people have been under evacuation orders since last week.

The fires forced the evacuation of Jasper National Park on Monday. On Wednesday evening, a blaze swept into the town of Jasper, setting several buildings on *****. The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, a well-known resort in the town, was on *****, according to CBC Radio, Canada’s national public broadcaster.

The local authorities said most of the remaining firefighters were being evacuated because of safety concerns.

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, the park authorities said that several had stayed behind to protect the town’s wastewater treatment plant, communications infrastructure and facilities for an oil pipeline that passes through the park to the Pacific Coast.

Mike Ellis, Alberta’s minister of public safety and emergency services,

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that he had asked the military for help.

The authorities in Calgary, Alberta’s largest city,

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saying smoke from the wildfires was expected to cause very poor air quality. The government of British Columbia, the province west of Alberta,

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