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Officials ask Albertans to be cautious as crews battle 300 wildfires in B C
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Kids raise money to help people in Lytton, B C , after fire destroys town | Article
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Mark Maslin, a climate change professor at University College London, U.K., argues that the ongoing events in B.C. are a very real example of disasters to come. What really upsets me is we ve had many of these warnings before about extreme heat waves and climate change, and people are only now just starting to listen, Maslin said. I m really hopeful that, firstly, the Canadian government, and then other governments around the world, will suddenly take notice.
A new normal
The tragedy in Lytton and the subsequent B.C. fires have created a conversation among experts about how western Canada can deal with wildfires in the future.
Land affected by wildfires in N W T has almost doubled since last week
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We’re on the brink of a ‘runaway fire age.’ Here’s why. And how to respond.
Ed Struzik is a fellow at Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University, author of
Firestorm, How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future and a new book on fire that McGill-Queen’s University Press is publishing early next year. SHARES A motorist watches from the Trans-Canada Highway as a wildfire sweeps down a mountain near Lytton, BC, destroying the town on July 1.
Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.
Five days after wildfire destroyed the town of Lytton in British Columbia killing two people and injuring several others, officials were still trying to account for some residents who were missing. No one apparently saw the fire coming. When they saw smoke, according to Mayor Jan Polderman, it took all of 15 minutes before the whole town was ablaze.