Fog Blog Wild Fire Log: Out of Control Fires In Quebec and Arizona:

OUT OF CONTROL FIRES BURNING IN QUEBEC AND ARIZONA.....Firefighters with Quebec's forest fire prevention agency (SOPFEU) are battling a major forest fire northeast of Lac Saint-Jean.

The fire has already raged across 58,000 hectares of land and is now headed toward Pipmuacan Reservoir, between the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord regions, where there are dozens of cottages, homes, and hunting and fishing camps.

"It's too early to assess the type of damage, how many cottages have been affected," said SOPFEU spokesperson Mélanie Morin.

"When we see a perimeter this big, it's easy to jump to conclusions and think that everything within that perimeter has burned. It may not have."

The fire is also closing in on the Peribonka Hydro-Québec station, which serves nearly 85,000 customers across the province.

Morin said if necessary, special measures can be taken to protect the station such as installing sprinkler systems and removing the vegetation nearby. .............As coronavirus cases in Arizona hit a new record high, the state is facing another serious threat: wildfires, with several large blazes stoked by extreme heat and drought burning not far from three of its largest cities.Scientists say the fires are an ominous start to what could be a very active fire season in the West, as the pandemic, wildfires and climate change all converge to create a recipe for potential disaster.Arizona has already seen three times as much land burned by fire this year compared to the same time frame in 2019, according to Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management statistics.The largest of the state's fires is the Bush Fire, which is burning northeast of Phoenix in Tonto National Forest. In the roughly five days since it began, it has exploded to become the largest fire currently burning anywhere in the US, and is already one of the largest fires in Arizona history.