More than 100 blazes are burning across Canada Monday, with several major wildfires prompting evacuations for hundreds of residents and threatening to swallow up communities.

A Canadian search-and-rescue group said it had conducted two missions recently after hikers “may have sought to follow” a nonexistent trail on Google Maps.

Western Canada is still contending with a number of devastating wildfires this week, and a state of emergency remained in effect for British Columbia amid the burning. Some 596 wildfires were ...

A map shows the locations of the hundreds of fires burning in British Columbia. The fire danger rating was listed as high or extreme for much of the province on Wednesday. BC Wildfire Service The ...