Canadian wild fires

[BrightonCorgi]

7 hours ago, Bijan said:

Generally it's lightning or carelessness.

The carelessness you can call man made. But that's not the same thing as arson.

It's pretty darn close.  Everyone knows how easily a forest fire can start.  Not being extremely cautious in an environment where one went out of their way to be in is like arson to me. 

 

One of the largest names in technology I was consulting at lost global communication for half a work day due to a forest fire in CA right before Covid.  Networking is their claim to fame at that!

[Bijan]

1 minute ago, BrightonCorgi said:

It's pretty darn close.  Everyone knows how easily a forest fire can start.  Not being extremely cautious in an environment where one went out of their way to be in is like arson to me. 

There's a ton of area that's at risk, and people can be pretty stupid.

If you compare lighting dry wood vs damp wood, while both can chemically combust, one is much easier. And pretty much only the dry one can be lit "by accident".

Making a campfire, or throwing out a cigar butt, where it's real dry, is dumb and criminal, but it's not the same thing as pouring out gallons and gallons of gasoline before lighting it to get a fire started.

[Puros Y Vino]

A high level view of what the fire situation in Ontario is like.  Note, the color legend to the left.  There are 59 active fires.  Some small, some massive.

[havanaclub]

Is Canadian media reporting how the fires were started? Natural? Man made?

Nope. They are just reporting on less important things like politics, events, interest rates etc.


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[BigDaddyOpus]

I live in Metro Detroit and this past week has been absolutely horrendous in terms of air quality. I really hope the Canadian government can get it together. I know the US has sent as many foresters as possible, but we are also in a drought at the moment in many parts of the US with one large forest fire that just happened near Gaylord, Mi.

[fokker4me]

I was amazed living in Philadelphia how incredibly bad it was thinking about the distance it is from those fires to my home. Can only imagine what it's like every wind shift living close to the blaze.

[Cigar Surgeon]

Reminds me of a few years ago back to back when California, Washington and Oregon wildfires were blanketing all of Canada in smoke. 

[Ted]

These fires in Quebec all started at once, no clouds, so lightning is hard to believe to be the culprit.. 

[bigfunkyg]

This is a site I use daily that is a good visual.  

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

I think the extent of the fires as well as occurring much earlier than other years is a concern.  The fire in northern Quebec is a monster.  

 

 

[SCgarman]

39 minutes ago, bigfunkyg said:

This is a site I use daily that is a good visual.  

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

I think the extent of the fires as well as occurring much earlier than other years is a concern.  The fire in northern Quebec is a monster.  

 

 

Can these fires be extinguished by manmade devices, or are they going to burn until the fuel runs out or rains end them? Curious because here in the US they are merely reporting on smoke and air quality, and not how to end the fires in general.

[Bijan]

6 minutes ago, SCgarman said:

Can these fires be extinguished by manmade devices, or are they going to burn until the fuel runs out or rains end them? Curious because here in the US they are merely reporting on smoke and air quality, and not how to end the fires in general.

these are huge fires, a lot of them at the same time, over a lot of area, some of the further north ones in the literal middle of nowhere, with no roads or navigable terrain whatsoever, so unfortunately only so much that can be done

[SCgarman]

24 minutes ago, Bijan said:

these are huge fires, a lot of them at the same time, over a lot of area, some of the further north ones in the literal middle of nowhere, with no roads or navigable terrain whatsoever, so unfortunately only so much that can be done

Do a rain dance and pray!

[BrightonCorgi]

The taste of Canadian smoke was on the tip of tongue.  Hazy all day long in Boston.  Didn't bother going to Cape with air quality as such.

[bigfunkyg]

On 6/30/2023 at 3:58 PM, SCgarman said:

Can these fires be extinguished by manmade devices, or are they going to burn until the fuel runs out or rains end them? Curious because here in the US they are merely reporting on smoke and air quality, and not how to end the fires in general.

No I have heard some of the worst are beyond human intervention.  The areas they have already burned are massive.

[BrightonCorgi]

Be interesting to see how the land grows back and the impact after this is over.

Native Americans in my state use to set wild fires to clear land.  Just how it was done back then.