Lately you need to add the word “hazy” to describe the lazy days of summer in Michigan.

Wildland fires in Canada – and especially Manitoba – along with others in the United States have millions of people under air quality alerts and that has everyone pointing the finger at whose to blame.

“It’s bad but they’re doing everything they can,” said Jeff Vasher, a resource protection manager with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, of the firefighters working to put out what at last count was 719 active fires burning through trees and tundra stretching from western British Columbia to eastern Prince Edward Island.

Keeping a daily tally of the active fires across the country is the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre , which reported the total of acres burned this season to m

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