, immedietly start to saturate with water a\nproperty next to it in the hope that\nthe fire will not be able to ignight it.\nThe paper industry, whole lifeblood is timber, plant their own forests and I\nbelieve it takes about 30 to 40\nyears for the trees to grow in Canada. ...
"We're very lucky so far. We did have a little scare down in the eastern part of the province where the firefighters were very fortunate to get that out." Woodbury is also the provincial liaison for FireSmart Canada, which works on wildfire educ...
Forest rangers are on their way to patrol at a forest farm in Miyi County of Panzhihua, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 10, 2024. As the high temperature and dry weather has continued since February in Miyi County of Sichuan, local forestry department has reinforced fire prevention a...
mitigate flood and earthquake disasters. Despite the increasing occurrence of wildfire disasters in Canada, funding to support wildfire prevention, mitigation and preparedness have not kept pace with the increasing need to mitigate the impacts from wildfires, and be better prepared when they do arrive....
The fire erupted in Baizi Village, in Yajiang County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, at around 5pm on Friday. Due to sudden increases in wind speed, it rapidly spread to other areas, said the headquarters of forest and ...
2024. The fire erupted in Baizi Village, in Yajiang County of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, at around 5 p.m. on Friday. Due to sudden increases in wind speed, it rapidly spread to other areas, said the headquarters of forest and grassland fire prevention and control in Garze. ...
Climate warming has caused a widespread increase in extreme fire weather, making forest fires longer-lived and larger1–3. The average forest fire size in Canada, the USA and Australia has doubled or even tripled in recent decades4,5. In return, forest f
Established in 1949, the NFFPC promotes effective prevention and control of forest fires in the Northeastern United States and adjacent areas in Canada.
BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A teleconference on forest and grassland fire prevention and control was held on Sunday after a forest blaze broke out in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Friday. At the conference, relevant authorities made further instructions on forestalling and extinguishing ...
Malone Fire Tower One of the biggest legacies of the PRF is the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) that was established there. This system is used widely across Canada and globally to manage forest fires. Take a tour in the past and learn how this research began and how...