{"id":30488,"date":"2025-08-06T23:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30488"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:15:32","slug":"744-active-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30488","title":{"rendered":"744 active wildfires&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-415326d209ff89163b35531f2012cfc7\" style=\"color:#c8190f\">Canadian officials have warned that this year&#8217;s wildfire season could shape up to be the second-worst on record. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, a non-profit owned and operated by federal, provincial and territorial wildland fire management agencies, said on its website that <strong>744 active wildfires <\/strong>were burning across Canada on Wednesday August 6\/25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-yellow-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-0810143099d2b00c97cc11c2640b1833\" style=\"color:#7d0000\"><blockquote><p><strong>Images from an ongoing Boreal Burning Series \/Allan Harding MacKay<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/B7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/B7.png 700w, 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The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, a non-profit owned and operated by federal, provincial and territorial wildland fire management agencies, said on its website that 744 active wildfires were burning across Canada on Wednesday August 6\/25. Images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;744 active wildfires&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30499,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions\/30499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}