A team of 60 Canadian firefighters will come to lend a hand to the Americans in the fight against the gigantic fires which have been destroying the Los Angeles region since Wednesday.
Posted at 4:40 p.m.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement in a brief publication on the social network X.
Already, twelve air tanker pilots and technicians from Quebec have been deployed to California. Two additional planes from the province will be added over the next week.
The multiple fires that have raged in Los Angeles for five days have left at least 16 dead, and spread on Saturday to areas that had until now been spared. The fire already covers more than 91 km2.
The county medical examiner announced additional deaths Saturday evening. The previous report reported 11 deaths.
Entire sections of the second largest city in the United States are devastated: more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed and more than 15,000 hectares have gone up in smoke. A landscape compared by President Joe Biden to “a war scene”.
Despite the massive mobilization of firefighters, the progression of the fire triggered new evacuation orders on the eastern flank of the Pacific Palisades sector, in an area where the Getty Center is located. Built in part with fire-resistant stone, the famous museum houses 125,000 works of art.
With Agence France-Presse
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