As he was wading across the river to the village to douse the fires there, Rimmer found Myca Le’s head in the water. A crew member brought over a plastic garbage bag and placed the little boy’s severed head inside. Special effects technician Kevin Quibell located Vic’s head, which ...
Koalas are contentious on Kangaroo Island, regarded as introduced pests before the disaster, the locals feel their greatly reduced numbers after the fires are now sustainable. The camping ground facilities had been totally rebuilt with insurance money resulting from the fires. Gary pointed out dark p...
“There’s the actual recovery of the land base, communities that have to obviously go through their recovery process with the devastating impact of wildfires this season, as well as where we put machine guards in and around all of these fires.” BC Wildfire Service uses heavy equipment to h...
They had to stop putting out those fires due to manpower shortages. The cannonade went on non-stop for 3 days. Despite the heavy bombardments and half-destructed line of defence, each defender on his place. The 348th day of Sebastopol defence was coming to its end. Taking into ...
The fire department had a good head of water but they were unable to get near the hotel owing to the intense heat.” Fire struck again on Jan. 29, 1938, when a blaze broke out at the historic Globe Hotel. As in 1931, strong winds fanned the flames, and the entire busines...
Lundquist said the dry weather is expected to continue for weeks. He said that there is a “month, maybe more” until late August storms wet down the province and decrease the risk of fires. “I’m worried that because it’s been so dry, it’s harder for the atmosphere to ...
“I didn’t light those fires to try to get away with what I had done,” he told the court. “For me, at the time, it was our funeral. I was to eventually kill myself at the same time.” But he didn’t kill himself, and in fact took selfies with Heppner’s phone and ...
“I’m so honoured to see the amount of people that are here supporting me and I hope that this is the first step in change and change that’s going to happen in the right way,” the 18 year-old Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation member told the Westerly News. “We all have to c...