WINNIPEG — Governments and non-profit groups are taking time to review this year’s wildfire season and the unprecedented challenges posed by evacuating tens of thousands of people across wide swaths of the country.

The Canadian Red Cross registered 52,000 people across the Prairies, Ontario and Atlantic Canada, making it the agency’s largest domestic operation in recent memory.

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There were several hundred flights to get people out of remote communities, some inaccessible by road.

Two people died after being trapped by fire near Lac Du Bonnet, Man.

The length of the wildfire season also

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