A freight train in Canada He was surrounded by fire. The situation occurred on July 13, 2026in the middle of one of the many forest fires that plague that country.
The crew, who were in the province of Ontario, recorded the scene. Canadian National Railwaythe railway company that manages the affected means of transport, temporarily suspended its operations in the area and relocated its employees.
The workers who appear in the video they managed to escape and they are safe, as reported. The motif of the Dantesque scene corresponds to drought, strong winds and extreme heat. Such factors caused this Wednesday, July 15, mMore than 830 forest fires in Canadareported ABC News.
The desperate moment on the train
The images of the workers who They were trapped in the flames It quickly began to circulate on social networks. With an impressive orange light, the two men were talking about how to handle such a situation.
«You need to hurry here! Seriously, we are surrounded by flames now,» one of them told the communicator. Seconds later, when asking on the radio for a person named «Jodie», a voice responded: «Yes, I can hear you there. We are raising the level.»
The smoke from the fires coincides with a extreme heat wave that plagues the entire country. Many areas of the Northeast and upper Midwest are expected to be hardest hit by the Canadian smoke, with temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius or even 38 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday.
For their part, the rains expected for Friday, July 17 in the Upper Midwest region and by Saturday the 18th in the Northeast they should help disperse some of the smoke.
The expansion of smoke plumes towards New York
Some of the largest wildfires are burning in western-central Ontario, consuming dense forests and releasing an incredible amount of smoke.
Likewise, this recent outbreak of wildfires in western Ontario, and in Minnesota, USAis sending dense columns of smoke towards the Great Lakes, a group of five freshwater lakes located on the border of these countries.
Those columns are also heading northeast, which will cause extremely dangerous air quality and possibly an orange atmosphere that reminds us of the particular sky that enveloped the city of New York in June 2023, he noted Fox News.
However, meteorologist Kenton Gewecke and journalist Bill Hutchinson of the ABC They reduced the probabilities of this last scenario. Yes, it was agreed with the previously mentioned medium that it is probable that the air quality in New York – where foggy skies are expected – becomes unhealthy.
Wildfires in Minnesota
Regarding the state of Minnesotathere are 17 active fires, he detailed Fox9. With rescue operations underway, forest fires are already They devastated nearly 55,000 acres.
This Wednesday the Canadian Air Force was in the middle of rescuing some American campers from the Christian organization YMCAwho were trapped on the other side of the border in the middle of the forest fires.
According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, smoke and ash have reached throughout the region as northerly winds carry wildfire smoke to nearby communities.
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Sarah Strommenindicated that it is believed that the fires were caused by a thunderstorm on July 6 and spread rapidly due to extreme heat, dry air and strong winds.
