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A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake. The fire was held, but required 70 firefighters and three helicopters and forced the precautionary closure of nearby Sooke Potholes Regional Park. [43] [44] On July 28, BC Wildfire Services reported 372 fires, classifying 177 as out of control. [45]
The Canadian government outlined a first line of actions that could help avoid or mitigate wildfires in future seasons: Training 300 Indigenous firefighters and 125 Indigenous fire guardians [241] Training firefighters to respond to fires in the wildland-urban interface [241]
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]
There were at least 53 new wildland fires on Sunday, according to the National Fire Situation Report from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Alberta had the most at 23, followed by ...
Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her northern Alberta community two months ago.
With hundreds of Canadian wildfires sending smoke across the northern United States, many Americans are wondering how long the bad air quality will continue and whether Prime Minister Justin ...
The 2021 British Columbia wildfires burned across the Canadian province of British Columbia.The severity of the 2021 wildfire season has been attributed to the combination of extreme heat, lower than normal rainfall, and "repeated severe thunderstorms and lightning events" by the BC Wildfire Service, [2] and possibly exacerbated by human-caused climate change.
[13] [99] The 2011 Slave Lake Wildfire, which destroyed one-third of the town of Slave Lake, cost approximately $750 million and was the most expensive fire-related disaster in Canadian history. The larger damage estimates were a result of Fort McMurray being 10 times the size of Slave Lake. [ 99 ]