LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Some of Syria’s worst wildfires in years have been brought under control as of Sunday, according to the Civil Defense and the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, following days of grueling firefighting in the forested countryside of the coastal Latakia province.

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.

Firefighters from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources formed a helitack crew to assist in the fight against wildfires in the western part of the country.

Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air due to drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued southeast Michigan's sixth air quality advisory of the season on Saturday due to elevated levels of fine particulate matter in the air from Canadian wildfires.

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.

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that wildfires in Colorado and throughout the western United States can dramatically alter the water quality of rivers and streams up to