Northern Canada is burning. It’s bad.

[Ron H]

It makes one wonder if all of this is intentional.

Really, seriously? Nothing to so with a bunch of trees and brush that has been dried out in some areas so remote they can't be accessed? Enlighten please on who may have started these fires..

 

[WileE]

Given that we can’t trust the news and those with an agenda to push,

We can't ?? But.. but... I believe everything I hear on the news.

 

[gdrill]

Really, seriously? Nothing to so with a bunch of trees and brush that has been dried out in some areas so remote they can't be accessed? Enlighten please on who may have started these fires..

For example. It’s real. There are deranged people out there. More than just this case. But many are accidental, although still human induced.

RCMP charge Alberta woman with 32 counts of arson after spring wildfires | Globalnews.ca

 

[Sahara]

I wish now I hadn’t started this post. These are not small, mostly out fires. There is no misleading news
other then what keyboard experts are posting here. There is no conspiracy. For **** sakes people, stop being yourselves just for once.

 

[gdrill]

Nobody said they are small. But the whole country is not on fire. That is misleading information. Many have been evacuated because of the extreme fires. Many are back in recovery mode now. Im not a keyboard expert. I am a manager with operations directly affected. So I pay attention to this stuff. You may be experiencing what others went through months ago. It’s not good at all.

 

[Davefinan]

I hope you get those fires under control up there , it’s been going on far too long.

 

[Photon440]

This is last week's report. That 13,319,485 hectares is equal to 33 million acres. More than 600% over normal.

Canadian Wildland Fire Information System | National Wildland Fire Situation Report

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca

 

[dadsbee]

We're smoked in here again today, but at least we're not running rainbirds trying to save our property as we have in the past.

Wife's cousin and family in NWT have been scrambling all week cutting down and clearing all combustibles in their yard and the MNR set up a line of rainbirds on towers across the rear of their property to hopefully save it from the fire raging towards them on the outskirts of Yellowknife.

 

[moparedtn]

Prayers continue for all you folks up there!
We've had amazing amounts of rain down here that I wish could be used to help you all ..

 

[440 PHIXX]

I live outside of Philly, and went “down the shore” in Jersey every year as a kid. They probably had over 100 fires a year in the pine lands, but you never heard about them unless it was causing a traffic issue. Most were caused by lightning strikes. Now that’s all you hear about. Kind of like the “heat index” that I never heard about until recently. “It feels like 102 today”… meanwhile it’s only 91.

 

[Sahara]

So here’s our true fire story. It’s a long one. Not fake news.
The territory I live in is huge, larger than Texas and a few other states combined, with a population of around only forty thousand. There are few roads, most communities only have one road in and out. Some have none, fly in only.
I live in Hay River, our nearest neighbours to the south are Enterprise thirty miles away, then High Level, Alberta, around two hundred miles. Going north and west there is Fort Resolution a hundred miles north, one road in. Fort Smith a hundred and fifty miles west, one highway in and one other dead end road going south.
At Enterprise the highway wraps around Great Slave Lake to Fort Providence about a hundred miles away, then on to Yellowknife, the capital city, population around twenty thousand. If you care, Google a map of the NWT to get an idea of the layout because it’s sort of confusing if you can’t see it.
Yellowknife has had fires burning around it for a few weeks. They move slowly but steadily through their short trees and muskeg. Last Tuesday I drove to Yellowknife to pick up a friend at their airport. Coming back to Hay River we passed a new fire called the Kakisa fire, named after a small village just east of Fort Providence. You could see it from the highway. The trees around here are much larger, pine and spruce about fifty to seventy feet tall. The fire was moving west, no concern to us but Kakisa was on alert.
Fort Smith had a few fires around them, and they were getting worried.
Saturday Fort Smith evacuated due to the fires now getting close. I offered to look after anyone’s cats because evacuation shelters and hotels won’t take them. People began dropping off cats. I think we took in around a dozen. That night the winds picked up and blew the Kakisa fire directly to Hay River. Suddenly Hay River had to evacuate and we had a dozen shelter cats and three of our own. Some people picked up their cats and we packed the rest into my Jeep and our cats into my wife’s Subaru wagon. We departed south. Almost immediately there were cars stopped in the road about fifteen miles south of hay river. You could see a few flames. The Kakisa fire had arrived, six hours ahead of schedule. This was at four in the afternoon. There’s about five cars ahead of me. We get out of our cars to look. Suddenly a horizontal wall of flame goes across the highway. Temperature shoots skyward, painfully hot. Trees begin exploding, literally. The fire is advancing towards us at about twenty miles an hour, and it’s only two hundred yards away. Mad panic as we all scramble to turn around and go back. Hay River is trapped, the road south is on fire. We race back towards hay River, telling everyone we encounter to go back, including my wife. There are around a thousand people in cars. It is chaos. Zero visibility from smoke. I work for the government and we have a shop in fort resolution. I text my wife that we will go there. She is to wait for me at the fort resolution junction while I race home to get my government keys. I return to the junction just as cell phones go down. No communications of any kind. Nothing. No wife. No way to contact her. Thinking she has gone on to fort res I press on in a Jeep full of cats. I get to ft res, no wife. I unload cats at the government shop and go to get gas. I have no cash, only credit cards but the internet is down so no card machines work, and they are out of gas anyway. I don’t have enough fuel to drive to hay river and back. I’m stuck. A friend gives me gas, and I drive the two hours to hay river, no wife. Drive back to fort res and arrive at 02:00AM. I get little sleep because of worry and fighting cats. We are all set up in my coworkers office, me on a cot and cats every where. The next morning another store has gas, but no credit cards, cash only. I plead my case and they front me some gas. Again I drive to hay river and back, no sign of wife. Nobody including the police have communications, everything is dead. Panic I drive in again. This time I am going through the blockade right into hay river, I’m not leaving until I find answers. Driving by the airport I see hundreds of vehicles in the parking lot. My wife’s car is there. I pull in and run inside. Hundreds of people. I see the mayor and run to her for info. Because the only road south is closed they are evacuating people by military Hercules and 737 aircraft. My wife and now NINE cats were evacuated yesterday. Big relief. She had only our three cats the last I saw her…
I drive the two hours back to fort res. I spend the rest of the day feeding cats and changing cat boxes.
Early the next morning I hear pounding on my door. My coworker informs me the road is passable south. I load up all of the cats and head south. South of hay river where I had to turn around all is black, some still burning, smoke everywhere. I pass the first burned car. Then more. Some are two together, back ended in the smoke. Some are in the ditch, either avoiding flames or blinded by smoke. There are remains of motor homes, boats, cars, trucks. Dead animals burned alive. A burned truck and trailer contains the charred remains of two Alpacas that one of my cat people was trying to save. I get to what is left of enterprise. There are about six buildings standing, enterprise itself is now one large field. I carry on. Just south of enterprise the fire is right by the highway but it is not windy so I drive through. By high level alberta is another big fire but the highway is still open. In eight hours I arrive at Valleyview, Alberta. I have friends there and my wife is there. My friend has an oilfield rental business. He donates a camp trailer to the cause and we move in the remaining cats. There are around twenty, we are not even sure anymore who belongs to who. We are safe.
There is much more to this story, this is just one of a few thousand other similar stories unfolding as you read this. Keep in mind that there was ZERO communication. Nothing. No phone, no cell phone, no internet. How would you and your community handle such a situation with NO ability to communicate other then face to face?

 

[Sahara]

Nobody said they are small. But the whole country is not on fire. That is misleading information. Many have been evacuated because of the extreme fires. Many are back in recovery mode now. Im not a keyboard expert. I am a manager with operations directly affected. So I pay attention to this stuff. You may be experiencing what others went through months ago. It’s not good at all.

We went through it months ago as well. This is our second round of it in just over two months and a record flood a year ago. The maps only show show active fires. They don’t show what burned yesterday and the days before, and they don’t show what will burn tomorrow and the next day. The fire I just went through travelled about a hundred miles in about six hours.So sure you can look at at a map and say yeah, there’s only a few fires a long ways away from anything. They can be there tomorrow and a hundred miles past the next day. Just a few fires.

 

[Belvedere408]

I feel you on the fires, I’ve got 3 around me now. Getting pretty smoky here.

 

[bearman]

I guessing our air quality has gone really bad. Need more money for climate change. Maybe we can make a exhaust system to clean up the black smoke so it doesn't look so bad. Just a thought

 

[patrick66]

Twenty wildfires started in Texas on (I believe) Saturday of last week. Coincidence, of course. s////

 

[Ron H]

much more to this story, this is just one of a few thousand other similar stories unfolding as you read this

YOU are one heck of a brave guy and nice to take in all those cats, my Lord, hey!
GLAD you, your wife, and all are safe.
I'd like to meet you someday over a cold beverage of choice. Stay SAFE pard!

 

[GTXDAN]

I saw them interview someone from the government there who worked for the forestry department and he said most of it was because of the hot dry year they are having and some was their fault. He said they used to just let the fires burn themselves out and not bother with most of them. Now there are so many fires and they are so much larger that they can't get a handle on them. He said they might have reevaluate the idea of just letting them burn themselves out. Stay safe up there.

 

[Photon440]

Here's what it looks like in the N.W.T. as fires rage

As fires continue to rage across the Northwest Territories and communities evacuate, residents don't know what they could return to. Here's what it looks like on the ground.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[kkritsilas]

In Alberta, 5 people (so far) have been arrested for starting forest fires. 4 were in a group that wanted to push the climate change agenda. The other was the lady described previously. Undoubtedly, some of the fires are from lightning, some are from recreational users of the forested areas not being careful about campfires or other fires, some are from people chucking out lit cigarettes from moving vehicles. But as true as all of that is, some are from people intentionally setting the fires as well. To say that they all were intentionally set would be wrong, just as much to say that they were all naturally set is also wrong. The province of Alberta is extremely dry, so the smallest spark, which in other years may not have amounted to anything, can start a forest fire.

 

[VANDAN]

I guessing our air quality has gone really bad. Need more money for climate change. Maybe we can make a exhaust system to clean up the black smoke so it doesn't look so bad. Just a thought

Strange you said that. I just heard a cast, that they are working on an "Environmental Vacuum" to clean the air. Kind of like the High Speed Rail System, in California, that Never materialized, after Billions $$$ were pumped into it...