Combating Fires News Today

Have been able to flee these fires. Bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happen and how you are coping. I am now in a small village called fort simpson, 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. It sounds like a huge distance but it really isnt. This place is twice the size of france. This is essentially free communities to the left of yellowknife. You can hear a flight plane into the distance. This is a Mackenzy River behind me. The writing has been under the walford days that fire w...

This pilot, hovering above a swimming pool, now being used to douse the flames further down the hill. These homes, some distance from the destroyed coastal town of lahaina, are in the centre of the island where, last week, just before the fires, the cameras at this Bird Sanctuary captured a bright flash. Staff believe it is a tree falling on a powerline. Shortly afterwards, flames can be seen in the forest. Ross hart saw something similar before his home burned down. We could hear some trees fal...

Drive down one highway out of yellowknife. clearly, fires like this cannot always be controlled but what can be controlled but what can be controlled is the human response and when you take the decision to leave and over the last few years, there are more and more voices suggesting that the traditional ways of combating fires or responding to fires might need to change and that we need to adjust their understanding of how we move people around and how we get them out and how we defend communitie...

Like right now, that does not do too much, cooler temperatures do not help that much, it has been an unusually hot summer which is why these fires are as devastating as they are. more than a thousand fires currently burning in canada. in terms of authorities and firefighters, are they able to control and contain these blazes and protect communities? frankly they answer to that is no, otherwise we would not have 20,000 people all trying to drive down one highway out of yellowknife. clearly, fires...

House next door will be on fire and the next door. eventually -- >> the whole idea of combating fires is you put out that fire so it doesnt spread. the problem is, president obama has this feckless foreign policy. he drew a line he had no intention of enforcing. then what we see now, the result is the fall of aleppo and syria and assad has no ability with its military sources to hold and control that sit city, which is. this is a big problem because he didnt act. now we have a situation where yo...