Just recently we have had serious forest fires in southern France and in Canada's New Brunswick island of Miscou as well as in British Columbia. While the US suffered a fire in one of its Montana forests and also in Oregon.The number of forest fires in the EU has trebled so far this year, according to figures obtained by Euronews, affecting an area nearly the size of Luxembourg. There have been 677 blazes in 2017 – a huge increase on the 215 the EU saw annually on average over the previous eight years.