Firefighters across North America are working intensively on containing wildfires across the region, as heatwaves reaching record-breaking temperatures continue. The wildfires are spreading in areas encompassing California, Washington, Oregon, and other states, as well as parts of Canada. The US National Interagency Fire Center that there were 84 uncontained large fires burning across the country. The centre stated that numerous wildfires in the northwest were displaying “extreme fire behaviour. The centre said, with more than 21,000 wildland firefighters across the country working on managing the flames.