Soldiers were set to arrive to help fight forest fires in Quebec Monday as the number of fires continued to rise.
There were 164 forest fires burning in Quebec Monday, up from 155 the day before, Kateri Champagne Jourdain, the minister responsible for the province’s Côte-Nord region, told a news conference.
At least 114 of those fires were out of control, according to the province’s forest fire prevention service, SOPFEU.
Champagne Jourdain said the fires in her region northeast of Quebec City were unprecedented. She spoke in Sept-Îles, Que., a city threatened by two fires — including one no more than seven kilometres away — with a third burning not far away….