Fires around the world

What can I say? They follow a plan, and stick to it. The lying media do the rest. Global warming at work...

Benoit Martin
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Climate change" at work. I hear the forest fire season is early this year. It started last month in Alberta.
In the notes they say they're burning to clean up the forest, to prevent fires. Ok, they're burning everything to clear it up, why not, let's say it's controlled, but we had these same videos with this same method for the fires in Greece, for those who remember. Without any control this time. It's not stupid to circulate such a video and then cry "conspiracy" for all the others ....
https://twitter.com/x/status/1768034299767407020
 
A strange fire erupted at a military base in Newfoundland, Canada a few days ago - CBC Article
A fire broke out in a former airport hangar in Happy Valley-Goose Bay late Friday, which sparked a number of explosions as well as an evacuation and an official state of emergency. A statement released Saturday morning from Happy Valley-Goose Bay RCMP says the fires in the town and on the Canadian Forces Base are now under control and there is no risk of explosion.
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No cause for the fire has been determined as of yet.
 
Fires have started In Canada again. Dutchsinse suspects the plates are shifting releasing heat which spark the fires at oil wells. At the end a more clear depiction of the fires starting and spreading,


ALERT: May 11, 2024 Exremely large fires have broken out all at once in Northwest Canada, British Columbia, and Alberta! It is happening again in the same locations as last year.. and this time I figured out what is at the location! https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms...A very large OIL AND GAS PUMPING OPERATION is across the area where the fires started again in BC Canada / Alberta!See for yourself here: General location to begin looking out from the center of the fires .... 58°56'15.49"N , 121°26'46.77"W
 
Massive northern Manitoba wildfire
CBC News · Posted: May 14, 2024 1:11 PM EDT

The fire, just north of Cranberry Portage and east of Flin Flon, is believed to have been started by lightning strikes and was first detected last Thursday. It was intensified by high winds and extremely dry conditions over the weekend, forcing the community of Cranberry Portage to be evacuated.
In a Tuesday afternoon update, the province said the fire was about 31,600 hectares in size and about 1½ kilometres from Cranberry Portage.
Air tankers and helicopters with buckets have been fighting the fire, the latest provincial fire bulletin said. The extent of the blaze can be viewed on the provincial government's interactive fire map.
The premier also thanked some of the five additional crews from Ontario that arrived in the area Tuesday. Another crew is expected to arrive Wednesday, the province said.
Firefighters from Saskatchewan have also been helping, and more are expected from Quebec, according to Kinew.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wab-kinew-tour-wildfire-manitoba-1.7203478


Fire now covers 37,000 hectares, up from 31,600 on Wednesday
CBC News · Posted: May 16, 2024 5:24 PM EDT

The blaze is still approximately 1½ kilometres away from Cranberry Portage, which has seen residents evacuated to The Pas.
The fire has also prompted evacuation orders from the nearby cottage subdivisions of Sourdough Bay, Whitefish Lake, Twin Lakes and Schist Lake North, as well as Bakers Narrows Provincial Park.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cranberry-portage-flin-flon-fire-grows-1.7206762
 
Not reporting a new fire, but I did find this item remarkable given how devastating the fires in Chile were. The short of it is, a firefighter was captured on May 24th and has been accused of starting the fires in Chile. Translating bigger portions of the article below. The jury is still out on this one, literally, so who knows how it might turn out.. but it's pretty wild.

One of the alleged perpetrators in the Valparaíso mega-fire detailed how he received instructions to start the flames at different points.

The volunteer fireman Francisco Mondaca was arrested a few days ago in Chile for a reason totally opposite to his work: setting fires.

The media of the South American country have widely reported the capture of the so-called 'pyromaniac fireman', together with another person, who would be the mastermind of the mega-fire that charred several places in the region of Valparaíso last February. In these fires 137 people died and 16,000 were affected.

On May 24, Chile's Investigative Police (PDI) arrested Mondaca, a 22 year old young man who had been a volunteer for almost a year and a half with the 13th Valparaíso 'George Mustakis Dragonas' Company, which he joined in December 2022.

The investigations to find him began in February, when a white car was identified at the scene of the conflagrations. The vehicle turned out to be Mondaca's, reports T13, so that his telephone was tapped and the places where he was and the conversations he held became known.

From fireman to arsonist

The news has had an impact on those around him. There were no suspicions about the young man since he had passed all the psychological tests to join the corps and received awards for his work in the firefighting institution, according to La Cuarta.

“There was an agreement between the accused, evidenced by a phone call in which they agreed that February 2 was the most appropriate date to start the fire,” said the judge.

The talks

Days before the mega-fire in February, Pinto had met with Mondaca to tell him that there were weather conditions, “such as heat and wind”, suitable to cause such an event. The proposed route would be the Lago Peñuelas Forest Reserve sector because “there was abundant dry grass in that area,” according to La Cuarta.

Pinto had previously told Mondaca that it would be convenient for them as officials to “work overtime” during the “firefighting”, reports La Tercera. However, Valparaíso Regional Prosecutor Claudia Perivancich considers that this aspect still needs to be studied further.

Pinto's defense denies the veracity of this communication and maintains that Mondaca wants to obtain benefits as a collaborator of the Prosecutor's Office.
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Current fires in the US and Mexico according to the National Interagency Fire Center and FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System US/Canada) as of June 4, 2024.

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Currently, 10 large, uncontained wildfires are burning in five states. Arizona and Florida each have three, New Mexico has two and Alaska and California both have one. About 2,330 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including two complex incident management teams, more than 45 crews, 132 engines and 15 helicopters.

Since January 1, 16,657 wildfires have burned 1,968,698 acres in the United States. This continues to be below the 10-year average for the number of wildfires, but nearly double the number of acres burned.

The national predictive services staff at the National Interagency Coordination Center released the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for June through September. Parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Florida could see above normal potential for wildfires in June. For additional information about the current outlook visit the Outlook page on the NICC site.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1797258663423606954

The Corral Fire in Tracy, near Livermore, California, started Saturday and is 85% contained. It kicks off the summer fire season as the state braces for a week-long heat wave.


Another affordable housing complex in California (under construction in Redwood City) has been reduced to rubble.
The cause of its destruction is being investigated.

Dated Jun 3, 2024
Evacuation orders lifted for residents impacted by 8-alarm affordable housing fire in Redwood City.
 
There many fires in Alberta, Canada right now (176) but a sad one is in Jasper. I lived there for three years, and today I learned that a forest fire from the south has made it to the small tourist town. The town (~4700 + 25,000 tourists, campers and seasonal staff) was completely (reportedly) evacuated yesterday.

As you can see from this map, there are only three ways into and out of Jasper, two of which were blocked by the fire to the south and a smaller fire to the north 5km away. The third way takes you across into British Columbia.

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This is a photo of Maligne Lodge, a hotel at the southern end of the town, before:

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... and now.

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Some rain is expected tomorrow.

www.theweathernetwork.com

Buildings in Jasper in flames after wildfire reaches town - The Weather Network

Alberta government seeks help from military to combat wildfires, help evacuees
www.theweathernetwork.com www.theweathernetwork.com
 
Benjamin said:
There many fires in Alberta, Canada right now (176) but a sad one is in Jasper. I lived there for three years, and today I learned that a forest fire from the south has made it to the small tourist town. The town (~4700 + 25,000 tourists, campers and seasonal staff) was completely (reportedly) evacuated yesterday.

As you can see from this map, there are only three ways into and out of Jasper, two of which were blocked by the fire to the south and a smaller fire to the north 5km away. The third way takes you across into British Columbia.

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This is a photo of Maligne Lodge, a hotel at the southern end of the town, before:

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... and now.

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Some rain is expected tomorrow.

www.theweathernetwork.com

Buildings in Jasper in flames after wildfire reaches town - The Weather Network

Alberta government seeks help from military to combat wildfires, help evacuees
www.theweathernetwork.com www.theweathernetwork.com
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Yup, it's sad, but at the same time it's not a tragedy because it was totally preventable. Aside from a fires being set intentionally by DEW and arsonists, there's also ignorant smokers who toss burning butts out the window, but even more than these, there's forest mismanagement and woke bureaucracies to blame:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1816313491420242120

Jasper National Park has been my backyard and my playground for 35 years. There isn't a trail in the park that I haven't hiked. During those 35 years I've seen a lot of mismanagement, but nothing like I've witnessed during the last decade. I've ranted about it it all my videos, talked about it online, discussed it with other users and even written to the staff.The devastation that's happening right before our eyes was totally predictable. We all saw the hillsides covered in dead, beetle infested pines. Forest are living eco-systems that go through life and death cycles. The fires are natural, but didn't have to be this dramatic. Park managers should have conducted some controlled burns and cleared dead forests. As usual, everyone is full of prayers. That's not what we need. We need to abandon this woke ideology that has infiltrated all our institutions. We need heads to roll after this one. Don't praise the fire chief for his efforts. His primary job is to prevent forest fires, not put them out.Don't celebrate the the park's superintendent who wanted to rename mountains instead of maintaining a healthy eco system.Blame the bureaucrates who worried about wheelchair accessible trails instead of fire access roads.Criticize the politicians who sent billions to the Ukraine meat grinder instead of buying water bombers.I'm beginning to think this really is by design. Ottawa doesn't want Alberta to have anything nice.
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I was in Jasper and left only a couple hours before everyone was order to evacuate. Regardless if it was preventable it is truly heartbreaking as people are losing their homes and business. International people on visa's that didn't have cars.

I do agree however that this needs to be a wake up call for us Albertans to hold accountable those who did not do their due diligence to prevent what was completely preventable. I actually was not aware of how poorly it was being maintained, aside from sending all our money to Ukraine + other wars instead of our own country, Thanks for the share iamthatis so I can become further educated.
 
The issue about forest mismanagement is not discussed nor is it in the public’s consciousness. Here in Oregon, USA fire season has just started after lightning strikes last week.
I spoke with a forest ecologist a couple of years ago and he quit the job because he was so frustrated with the direction of the forest service. He explained to me that there are multiple problems with current and historical forest/fire management.

Firstly after 150 years or so of putting out fires by the logging industry and governments, the forests have huge amounts of fuel built up in them and the health of the canopy is compromised by the clearing out by fire not happening. Diseased and dead trees remain and become the kindling for new fires.

Most people are aware of forest fire ecology these days. In the Willamette National Forest-Oregon the logging was stopped completely in the 80s and mills were shut down. Selective logging by helicopter has resumed in the past ten years or so and you’d think this would help reduce fire risk by reducing fuel, the catch is it doesn’t. Instead it increases risk by destroying the healthy canopy and causes forest floor to dry out and become tinder. The forest ecologist told me the most sustainable timber industry would use plantation forestry and clear cutting practices. This is what’s done in New Zealand.

Obviously a dry forest means fires burn extremely hot and then the parts of the forest with intact canopy but large amounts of fuel will catch fire also. Entire trees will torch, this then means if the wind gets up fires will jump across roads, fire breaks and ridge lines. Then we have people wanting to live in idyllic towns surrounded by trees. They actively have disregarded fire service recommendations for maintaining a clear fuel free defensible zone around their homes. Add to this the North American desire to use shingle roofing (it’s cheap and looks cute compared to a metal roof) which is highly flammable.

Two huge fires here in Oregon in 2020 and 2022 were evidence of how hopeless the situation is. The 2022 fire burn area included a region around Waldo lake that had burned very hot about 20 years ago, because the canopy had been destroyed in the earlier fire the 2022 fire surprised local folks in that in burned through the previous burn taking it down to cinders, destroying the soil. Do you can see there is a tragic cycle happening. Unfortunately environmental groups have blocked salvage logging of the devastating ‘Holiday Fire’ of 2020. After seeing what happened around Waldo Lake this could be very tragic for the area. This is because the canopy was destroyed in the Hoilday Fire and what’s remaining of the trees is in very dry surrounds. It seems like cutting and salvage logging would facilitate new planting that could be planned and managed properly.

Over the past five years I have observed fire services trying to balance letting some fires burn to restore the natural fire ecology and preventing them getting to big and hot. It’s very tricky to balance. Because once they get hot and the wind blows, as we all have seen, they are uncontrollable. There is and has been a lot of controlled burning going on around our town of Oakridge. So there are people working hard to try get it right but it is a political and funding battle. The biggest problem I see at present is the selective logging going on which all around us is increasing fire risk.

I also am curious to know if lightning strike fires have increased over past few years, this is something I have struggled to find information on.

Well thats what I understand at present, if anyone with more knowledge has any corrections of this I’m keen to hear it. Or more info.
 
iamthatis said:
Yup, it's sad, but at the same time it's not a tragedy because it was totally preventable. Aside from a fires being set intentionally by DEW and arsonists, there's also ignorant smokers who toss burning butts out the window, but even more than these, there's forest mismanagement and woke bureaucracies to blame:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1816313491420242120
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Regarding the "intentional" overall decline in forest and fire management, I can confirm the same thing for the Thompson/Okanagan/Similkameen in the interior of BC. My dad's lived on two different rural properties in the South Okanagan since the mid-80's. To build there, he had to have some serious fire suppression through deep wells with powerful pumps before he was permitted to build. We were talking earlier this week, and he echoed almost exactly what MartyUpNorth wrote on his X post.

When my dad moved out there, the province and the Regional Districts were very aggressive in clearing dead wood and creating fire brakes. Our 90 acre property was inspected yearly. By about the mid to late 90's, "Activists" (usually not from the Okanagan, but Vancouver) started lobbying very hard to leave things as they are and "let nature take its course". This got progressively worse and the budgets shrank. Also the management went from the crusty old Ranger "get 'er done" crew to more pacifist enviro university types.

He did mention that this has changed after the horrible fire season last year and he's noticed that, at least in the Okanagan and Similkameen, there is a more robust effort at prevention than there has been in a long time.
 
This from Yahoo News with many video clips and interviews. It is total devastation, one firefighter reporting 3-400 foot flames.

Alberta fire officials said B.C. has its hands full with its own wildfires and evacuations. "They had no capacity to house Albertans," Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis told The Canadian Press reporters.

Ellis told evacuees to take massive detours, either through Prince George, B.C., proceeding north and east to Grande Prairie, or south to Kamloops before going east to Calgary. The result was a long, slow-moving line of cars and trucks heading west through the mountains to B.C. in darkness, swirling smoke, soot and ash.

Parks Canada states in their latest update there were no reports of injuries or serious situations.




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We’ve approved Alberta’s request for federal assistance. We’re deploying @CanadianForces resources, evacuations support, and more emergency wildfire resources to the province immediately — and we’re coordinating firefighting and airlift assistance. Alberta, we’re with you.
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