This is the best daily overview of a totally out of control situation. Nearly 200 fires are burning, more than half are completely out of control. The total area has already surpassed the total of all fires from last year. The takeaway from the report is that one of the fires is 5 km from the Transcanada Highway. This would cut off all truck commerce between the providences. Of course, the people paying the cost for this situation, fueled by climate change and our use of fossil fuels are the indigenous communities of Canada. They are literally losing everything to these fires. The irony is that the province is governed by a man who denounces climate change and has torn out long standing bicycle lanes in Toronto.
We are not immune from these dangers to the north of us. Luckily we had a heavy rain this week that dampened a lot of the current red zone warnings. But we are literally “not out of the woods” yet.
The Canadian military has been deployed. The area of the fires is now larger than Prince Edward Island, which is huge.
Filed under: Climate Change, Global Warming, Olympic Peninsula | Tagged: Canadian wildfires |
Thank you Al. What a frightening scenario. I have read that the smoke in the U.S. south of the fire in intense.