WILDFIRES IN Canada and Tenerife has forced thousands to flee their homes.
Canada has declared a state of emergency as over 1000 wildfires are raging across the country, destroying an estimated area the size of Greece.
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Around 30,000 British Columbia Province households are ordered to leave and an additional 36,000 people have been placed on alert.
Helicopters dropped water on a wildfire in Tenerife that had been burning in the forests around the Mount Teide natural park near Mount Teide for five days.
A good winter has kept the fires from reaching any holiday homes.
But the fire, which is the Canary Islands’ biggest ever, has still destroyed over 6% of the area and forced more than 12,000 people to flee their homes.
Canada is having its worst wildfire season on record – with at least 1,000 blazes burning across the country.
There have been more than 5,700 fires across Canada this summer.
It comes after a horror blaze in Maui, in American island state Hawaii, killed at least 110 – although the number is still expected to surge.