No s'mores or swimming? Summer camps may look different this year due to wildfires

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Sleeping bags? Check. Flashlights? Check. N95s and air purifiers? Check.

Summer camp packing lists may look a little different this year as wildfire smoke and poor air quality means camps across affected sections of Canada and the U.S. are having to adjust everything from moving activities indoors and rerouting canoe trips to cancelling campfires and outdoor swimming.

There were 499 wildfires burning in Canada as of Thursday, and 230 of them were out of control, according to the most recent data from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

On Friday, the air quality-monitoring website IQAir said that as of 11 a.m., Toronto and Montreal ranked second and third for the

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