Trudeau warns of 'more frequent' extreme weather
STORY: “As for the lessons learned from this, first we're going to focus on getting through this particular season, giving all the resources we can, and people need to be able to stay safe and get through this particular fire season," said Trudeau.
Canada is enduring its most destructive start to wildfire season, with about 4.8 million hectares (48,000 square kilometers) - an area larger than the Netherlands in western Europe - already burnt.
Forest fires regularly occur in the summer but the scope of the current conflagration - and its early arrival - are unprecedented. On Monday (June 12), some 449 fires were burning across Canada, including 219 out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
