Fire in Canada

Forest fire photo from Wikimedia 16 July 2026 The wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh today is from wildfires in western Ontario and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota(*). As of Thursday 16 July at 6:03am, there are 857 fires burning in Canada. Active wildland fires in Canada, 16 July 2026, 10:03am UTC (map from Canadian Wildland Fire Information System) NASA’s GeoFire product shows fire hotspots and visible smoke on Monday 13 July. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (@cira_csu) On the ground it is frightening. My first view of it was this raw footage from a Canadian National Railway (CN) freight train trapped by fire near Armstrong, Ontario. The engineer is on the radio calling for help. WARNING: THIS RAW FOOTAGE IS CONTAINS AN UNCENSORED WORD View this post on Instagram A post shared by TheHotshotWakeUp: Substack/Podcast (@thehotshotwakeup) This 6+ minute CBC News report begins with the CN train and shows evacuations throughout…