Residents of Canada’s far north should cooperate with the authorities and evacuate the area where raging wildfires could reach by the weekend (“Canada far north city ordered to evacuate as wildfires advance,” Aug.17, Gulf Today website).

According to the report, residents of one of the largest cities in Canada’s far north were ordered on Wednesday to flee amid warnings that raging wildfires could reach it by the weekend.

The crisis in the town of Yellowknife is the newest chapter in a terrible summer for wildfires in Canada, as flames spread quickly across the country, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate and charring large swathes of land. More than 1,000 wildfires are currently burning across the vast country, including about 230 in the Northwest Territories, in Canada’s taste of a very hot and destructive summer in much of the Northern Hemisphere.

It’s so surprising and shocking that countries like Canada and the United States of America are experiencing hot weather that is triggering wildfires and destroying cities and villages.

The world is experiencing a hot summer because of global warming. Climate change has become the biggest threat to the world.

I am sure the world’s powerful countries have the power to fight against climate change along with other countries and save the world.

Zubair Azam,
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