Wildfires can be normal and healthy parts of an ecosystem, but today's fires can burn into unnatural infernos, producing unhealthy smoke that adversely impacts people's health hundreds of miles away. Different regions, at different times of year, will have a variety of influences stoking flames...
(Arson generally accounts for between one and four per cent of human-caused fires annually, Flannigan said.) Human-caused fires are on the decline in Canada, data shows. "We attribute that to fire prevention, and fire managers getting the messa...
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The CAFC has been lobbying for a national fire advisor as a key part of its federal mandate and welcomed the U.S. Fire Administrator, Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, to address the room and share the history and insights into the U.S. organization. In America, the Federal Fire Prevention and C...
season will light a fire under Canada’s fire-foolish policymakers, and finally motivate them to take the rational course — fighting fire risk with fire use, rather than pointing to the climate sky gods and calling for appeasement measures that will not affect Canada’s risk of forest fires....
of these products when they are kept in buildings, where they are no longer under the control of transportation legislation.This paper describes the process by which the Canadian National Fire Code was recently revised to address problems created when fires occur in buildings storing dangerous goods...
low-barrier, single-room housing. The City of Vancouver activelysubsidizesa local “street market” well-known as a hub for stolen goods. Sidewalk tent encampments are so entrenched that fires and explosions caused by ill-tended propane tanks were becoming analmost daily threatto nearby businesses...
Wildland firefighters and professionals who work with them say the job has become mentally tougher as fires have become larger and more complex, increasingly getting close to or reaching areas where people live. "I hear it over and over again that these a...
More than 2,300 fires have ignited across Canada this year. In Quebec alone, nearly 1 million acres have been burned this year, and more than 430 wildfires have ignited across Quebec so far in 2023 — twice the average for this time of year. There are more than 150 active wildfires burn...
For example, the boreal forests in northern Alberta experience fires every 39–96 years [56]. The year 2023 witnessed a surge in wildfires, significantly surpassing the occurrences in the past decade [57]. With climate change, predictions suggest that Canada will face more frequent and intense ...