Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan said in a post on X that resources and equipment will be mobilized as needed. I have been in contact with@FEMA_Deanneabout the ongoing wildfires in California.@melaniejolyand I are closely monitoring the situation and have asked our officials ...
Canada surpassed its known historical record for total area burned by wildfires in one season on June 27. With months to go in the 2023 season, 8.8 million hectares of land have burned so far. The previous record was 7.6 million hectares during the entire 1989 season. The 10-year average ...
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Residents in parts of northeast British Columbia have been asked to flee their homes because of encroaching wildfires. The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality has issued an evacuation alert for the remote areas of Ittsi Creek and Maxhamish Lake, located about 125 kilometres north of Fort Nel...
B.C. and the Yukon spoke about wildfires; the metro chiefs’ perspective expanded on this with concern of the extreme weather events and municipal FDs not being equipped and trained to respond, these events also being tiring to crews and damaging to equipment. P.E.I. brought up issues aroun...
"I’d say northern Alberta is still at great risk for wildfire. The mountains have been helped out quite a bit, and that will help the rivers, but that doesn’t help the farmers unless they irrigate, and it doesn’t help the wildfires ...
The government also has robust disaster management systems to respond to events like wildfires, floods and winter storms. Frequent extreme weather: Winter in some provinces, such as the Northwest Territories, is especially cold, with heavy snowfall and long periods of below-freezing temperatures. Howe...
Ken McMullen, the fire chief in Red Deer, Alta., and president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, said his group has been lobbying for an enhanced federal agency model for more than a decade. He said when it comes to wildfires, there is a disconnect between the ...