Canada wildfires: Warnings of 'explosive' wildfire season

[deyana]

Canada wildfires: Officials warn of 'explosive' wildfire season


Canada's government says it is preparing for another "explosive" wildfire season, for which it is training extra firefighters.

A warmer-than-normal winter has left little snow on the ground and has compounded droughts in several regions.

Last year was by far Canada's worst for wildfires, with 15 million hectares (37 million acres) of forest burned.

A minister warned that this year could prove even more devastating.

The summer was impossible to predict, but wildfires would continue to pose a "significant challenge" for the foreseeable future, said Harjit Sajjan, the minister for emergency preparedness.

At a news conference, Mr Sajjan called attention to "extreme drought conditions" in southern Alberta, British Colombia and Southern Ontario.

He said above-normal temperatures had also caused earlier snow-melts, and that heat and dryness nationwide meant that the wildfire season was likely to start sooner.

www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68789278

[apple]

Not looking forward to the summer fires.
🙄

[rico]

Fire season is awful. Hopefully a wet spring might help but I'm not counting on it.

[deyana]

Well, we are due to have a 3 day rain event. But then it's sunny and dry again.

I am also not looking forward to the intense heat. I am surrounded by forests, so if a wild fire broke out around here, there'd be nothing to do but run.

My family and I have actually talked about the best route to take if such an event did occur. It's best to be prepared. Luckily we have a few options. A few roads in and out of this area.

[sauerkraut]

Canada needs to thin out the forests or do "raking" as they call it in Europe, allow more logging to take place would help but ya got environmentalists who are against everything. They had a hands off policy in Yellowstone Park before 1988, when that massive wildfire hit Yellowstone in 1988 they started to clear the forests of trees and dead wood and since then they had no big fires in Yellowstone Park. Fire needs fuel to burn no fuel no fires.

[mrright]

well at least they dont pollute . lol

[Justbec]

I hope they are wrong....

[apple]

Apr 12, 2024 9:28:54 GMT -5 sauerkraut said:

Canada needs to thin out the forests or do "raking" as they call it in Europe, allow more logging to take place would help but ya got environmentalists who are against everything. They had a hands off policy in Yellowstone Park before 1988, when that massive wildfire hit Yellowstone in 1988 they started to clear the forests of trees and dead wood and since then they had no big fires in Yellowstone Park. Fire needs fuel to burn no fuel no fires.

Yes, we better get our rakes out.
367 million hectares of forrest, it might take a while.

[mrright]

Apr 12, 2024 14:03:51 GMT -5 apple said:

Apr 12, 2024 9:28:54 GMT -5 sauerkraut said:

Canada needs to thin out the forests or do "raking" as they call it in Europe, allow more logging to take place would help but ya got environmentalists who are against everything. They had a hands off policy in Yellowstone Park before 1988, when that massive wildfire hit Yellowstone in 1988 they started to clear the forests of trees and dead wood and since then they had no big fires in Yellowstone Park. Fire needs fuel to burn no fuel no fires.

Yes, we better get our rakes out.
367 million hectares of forrest, it might take a while.

dont they cut  fire breaks into the forest?

[💥Rusty]

I just hope the smoke doesn't come this way. It was BAD last summer

[deyana]

There were so many wild fires last year.

According to the experts this year will be worse.

I am worried about it, for sure.

[mrright]

Apr 12, 2024 17:59:03 GMT -5 💥Rusty said:

I just hope the smoke doesn't come this way. It was BAD last summer

we should sue canada over it

[sauerkraut]

Apr 12, 2024 16:13:26 GMT -5 mrright said:

Apr 12, 2024 14:03:51 GMT -5 apple said:

Yes, we better get our rakes out.
367 million hectares of forrest, it might take a while.

dont they cut  fire breaks into the forest?

Heck no, that would offend the environmentalists just think of all the wonderful fire fumes and global warming gases being released because they don't wanna trim back the forest.

[sauerkraut]

Apr 12, 2024 18:56:39 GMT -5 deyana said:

There were so many wild fires last year.

According to the experts this year will be worse.

I am worried about it, for sure.

They need to open up all those forests for logging and thin it out, but they don't wanna do that. Yellowstone Park had a massive wildfire in 1988 and since then they kept it trim and cut down trees and as far as I know they had no wildfire there since.

[mrright]

Apr 17, 2024 9:26:50 GMT -5 sauerkraut said:

Apr 12, 2024 16:13:26 GMT -5 mrright said:

dont they cut  fire breaks into the forest?

Heck no, that would offend the environmentalists just think of all the wonderful fire fumes and global warming gases being released because they don't wanna trim back the forest.

so pretty much anything to fit the lib agenda

[Deleted]

And a lot of them will be intentionally set to push the climate change agenda.

[apple]

Apr 17, 2024 9:53:37 GMT -5 @fuzzems said:

And a lot of them will be intentionally set to push the climate change agenda.

A lot?  ReAlLy

[sauerkraut]

Apr 17, 2024 9:53:37 GMT -5 @fuzzems said:

And a lot of them will be intentionally set to push the climate change agenda.

I would not doubt that, they are radical loons anything to advance that agenda!

[sauerkraut]

Open up logging and clear cut the forests into blocks, get rid of the undergrowth. Even if a fire starts it can't burn very far. It would also flood the market with lumber lowering the price of lumber. It also would makes tons of jobs.

[💥Rusty]

Apr 12, 2024 17:59:03 GMT -5 💥Rusty said:

I just hope the smoke doesn't come this way. It was BAD last summer

This is from one of the local I-95 cameras. It isn't fog but smoke.🤢