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North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: May 11, 2024, 9:19 pm
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Figured since wild fire season is upon us, may as well start a
topic on it since it's likely to be a record fire year in parts
of North America.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: May 11, 2024, 9:21 pm
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Evacuees in northeast B.C. escape raging wildfire.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fort-nelson-wildfires-bc-may-11-1.7201753
"Residents of Fort Nelson, as well as the Fort Nelson First
Nation, have been told to leave their homes."
"The fire was about 12 kilometres west of Fort Nelson when the
order was issued, shortly before 7:30 p.m. PT Friday"
Fort Nelson wildfire: Parker Lake blaze more than doubles in
size.
HTML https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fort-nelson-wildfire-parker-lake-005203693.html
Wild fires are why I could never handle living in Northern and
Central BC.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: caretaker Date: May 13, 2024, 12:12 pm
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I could smell smoke yesterday morning, but today the wind is
different.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: May 13, 2024, 12:25 pm
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The fire near Ft. Nelson has come as close as 3km from the town.
BC Fire Service will provide an update later today on the fire,
and crews are preparing a last stand in the event the fire gets
close in an effort to prevent it from reaching the town.
3,500 people have been evacuated, there is limited
accommodations in the region but the province has opened an
accommodation site at Sunset Prairie with 200 rooms.
HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10492455/bc-wildfire-fort-nelson-latest/
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: July 22, 2024, 12:59 pm
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Wildfire forces evacuation of B.C.'s Barkerville gold rush
heritage site.
HTML https://bc.ctvnews.ca/wildfire-forces-evacuation-of-b-c-s-barkerville-gold-rush-heritage-site-1.6972838
BC wildfire service has set up structure protection at the
historic site.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkTgw5xhtDI
There is an orange tinge in Vancouver today, smoke mixed in with
the clouds.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: July 23, 2024, 5:10 pm
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Evacuees flee to B.C. after Jasper wildfires block escape
routes.
HTML https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/evacuees-flee-to-bc-after-jasper-wildfires-block-escape-routes-9256498
"Thousands of people who were ordered to leave Jasper overnight
are being told to travel through British Columbia. "
Kamloops, Prince George, Dawson Creek and Valemount are seeing
an influx of evacuees.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: July 25, 2024, 1:10 pm
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Widespread destruction in Jasper, including numerous buildings
in the historic townsite in the heart of Jasper National Park
according to Parks Canada.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/wildfire-that-roared-into-jasper-was-a-wall-of-fast-moving-flame-says-fire-official-1.7274825
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: Siouxie Date: July 25, 2024, 8:26 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycQS8uHXiA
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: July 27, 2024, 6:25 pm
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Park Fire in Northern California rages out of control with over
307,000 acres (480 square miles approx) burned, there are 2,400
firefighters trying to slow the fire which is 0% contained and
currently the 7th largest fire in California recorded history.
The fire is burning roughly 4,000 to 5,000 acres per hour.
A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with this
fire, he allegedly pushed a burning car 60 feet into a gully
which rapidly spread the flames that started this fire.
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/us/california-chico-park-fire-canada-jasper-fire/index.html
HTML https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/pictures/in-photos-park-fire-in-northern-california/12/
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
By: jsmth321 Date: July 28, 2024, 6:08 pm
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The big fire in California created a fire vortex also called a
fire tornado. Video at the link.
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/us/video/fire-tornado-california-wildfire-digvid
An evacuation order was issued for Paradise, California. This
town was basically destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire which is also
the deadliest fire in California history.
The park fire covers 546 square miles of land, and as of Sunday
morning was only 12% contained. (for comparison metro Vancouver
is 1,111 sq miles the city of Vancouver is 47 sq miles.)
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/28/us/park-fire-paradise-evacuation-warning-oregon-canada-wildfires/index.html
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