A haze visible in parts of the Sacramento Valley is from multiple wildfires burning in Northern California. A north wind is pushing the smoke to the valley, and a high-pressure system is locking it in with little wind.

The amount of land burned this year is on pace to be the most since 1994, as 100 blazes roared on Friday across the central Canadian province.

Multiple aircraft are fighting the fire and a federal incident management team is set to take command of the fire first thing Friday, emergency officials said.

The Green Mountain Fire, located six miles south of Ovando, burned 20 acres and is sitting at 0%.The Garnet Mountain Fire, located 12 miles southwest of Ovando,

Massive wildfires have torn through Syria’s coastal mountain region of Jabal Turkman since Thursday, destroying thousands of acres (hectares) of forest and overwhelming emergency services.

The Canadian government is not doing enough to support Indigenous people suffering from 2025’s wildfires, according to the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation.

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

The Grand Canyon's North Rim in Arizona also closed Thursday because of a wildfire on adjacent Bureau of Land Management land near Jacob Lake. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office said it helped evacuate people from an area north of Jacob Lake and campers in the Kaibab National Forest nearby.

With several wildfires raging in various parts of the state, Central Pierce Fire & Rescue deployed a crew to assist east of the Cascades.