Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged everyone in the province Wednesday to refrain from lighting campfires, as 54 wildfires burned across the province and smoke from fires in Quebec degraded air quality.
Half of the fires are started by lightning strikes and the other half are caused by human activity such as not properly extinguishing campfires, Ford said in the legislature.
“I’m asking every Ontarian: please do not light any campfires,” Fordsaid. “We’re out there, all the firefighters are out there I should say, fighting against these wildfires … we will throw every resource we can to make sure we put these fires out.”…