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The fire covered 14,300 hectares, but on July 26 the evacuation order was lifted. [42] Wildfire smoke fills the Slocan Valley on July 27. The village of Slocan, visible at the bottom of the lake, was evacuated. A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake.
2017 Alberta fires Alberta, Saskatchewan Alberta Saskatchewan: summer 2017: 1 [33] 14+ [33] Fires possibly caused by power lines downed in a storm. [34] North Bay 69: Temagami Ontario: Jul– Aug 2018: 0: 221 hectares (550 acres) 2018 Parry Sound forest fire: Parry Sound District Ontario: Jul– Oct 2018: 0: 11,362.5 hectares (28,077 acres ...
Forest management is also a factor in the wildfires. Because Canada's forest management has focused on fire suppression, dry vegetation has accumulated on the forest floor. [39] Canada has generally stopped performing controlled burns, which help reduce the risk of larger and more dangerous fires.
1985 forest fires burnt 105,000 hectares with the worst affected being around Kavala in eastern Macedonia and Thasos Island in the north Aegean. [11] 2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 ...
2015 Canadian wildfires were a series of wildfires across Canada and Alaska in June 2015 which spread smoke across most of North America. Over two hundred fires were ablaze across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. [1] Tens of thousand of people had been evacuated and more than 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) of forest had burned ...
Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality.
The fire broke out in a nearby forest and quickly expanded to the surrounding towns. 2019 – Another Dhaka fire kills 78 people on 20 February in Churihatta, Chawkbazar area of old Dhaka, Bangladesh.
[10] [51] The fire continued to grow, from 285,000 ha (700,000 acres) on May 16 to 504,443 ha (1,246,510 acres) on May 21 and even spread across 741 ha (1,830 acres) in Saskatchewan. [52] While the fire moved away from Fort McMurray, two explosions and poor air quality continued to prevent residents and rebuilding crews from returning to the ...