across the country spanning 11 million acres and more than half of those fires are not under control. hot and dry conditions are making it easy for wildfires to spread. climatologists like dr. david robinson says climate change is partly to blame. we re seeing snow melt off the lands earlier in the spring. that gives them time to dry out. that in turn helps warm things up and you get this vicious cycle going. reporter: the smoke drifting south and earlier this week, americans breathing it all in, cities covered in toxic smoke. skies painted an apocalyptic orange and red hues with flights and baseball games canceled. we ve seen that this smoke knows no borders. it s just jumping on the prevailing wind patterns at any given time. reporter: and now hundreds of firefighters from the u.s. and europe are arriving in canada to lend a hand to the firefighting efforts, mark.
KUNMING, April 16 (Xinhua) After over 100 hours of firefighting efforts, the forest fire in southwest China Yunnan Province was successfully extinguished lat
want to listen in. a maryland state police, all over the scene, healing the scene of the accident. the maryland department of the environment, that frederick county division of fire and rescue hazards materials team, and the frederick city department of public works are on the scene and have could firmed that the hazardous materials involved in the incident are contained. they were contained prior to reaching carroll creek. i m also glad to share that the phone used in the firefighting efforts for environmentally friendly and did not include any pfa asked material. there is some foam residue that is visible in carroll creek, and we re working with the maryland department of the environment in the french extending public works to contain the spread of that foam from the fire fight. there is no risk to the public at this time. on behalf of the frederick county division of fire and rescue services, i would like to thank our local county and state partners who worked so
that some of the hazardous waste being removed from the site was going to certified plants in their communities, a phone call would have been nice. at least a heads-up given the story, we re in the early stages of the derailment, that the information was hard to come by. very hard to come by for many. residents in east palestine, ohio. in harris county, for example, the chief executive saying she first learned the 2 million gallons of the water that was used for firefighting efforts during the incident earlier this month, she found out about it on the news that some of this water, nearly 2 middle gallons of it, would be disposed in her community. so she s certainly taken issue with that. meanwhile, texas molecular, the company hired for the disposal of this water responded saying they have nearly four decades of experience handling water safely. so that is, hopefully, should be something reassuring for texas. then you have the situation in