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A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake. The fire was held, but required 70 firefighters and three helicopters and forced the precautionary closure of nearby Sooke Potholes Regional Park. [43] [44] On July 28, BC Wildfire Services reported 372 fires, classifying 177 as out of control. [45]
Wildfire near the University of British Columbia Okanagan on August 17, 2023. The McDougall Creek Fire was a wildfire in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada as part of the 2023 Canadian wildfires. It started near West Kelowna on August 15, 2023, and was discovered at 5:59 pm PDT. [1]
near Stellarton, Nova Scotia: Maritimes 13 1887: Nanaimo mine explosion: Mining disaster Nanaimo, British Columbia: West Coast 148 1889 September 19: Québec rockslide: Geologic collapse near Quebec City, Quebec Central Canada 40+ 1890 May 16: Saint-Jean-de-Dieu asylum fire: Fire Montreal, Quebec: Central Canada 86-104 1892 July 8: The Great ...
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]
The indigenous people of Canada for centuries intentionally set fires on the landscape for a variety of cultural needs. "They burned for medicinal plants, for food plants, to produce firewood, to ...
Fire name Hectares burned Fire Centre Date discovered Comments Link Bloedel fire 75,000 Sayward July 5 1938 0 deaths, the fire burned for 30 days on the north of Vancouver Island directly outside the village of Sayward. The effort to extinguish the fire was the largest in British Columbia's history up to that point.
Jul. 27—When driving down Columbia Basin Highway after a 220-acre wildfire, some homes appear to still be standing among the charred, still-smoldering ground. Others were lost.
In a study of British Columbia's 2017 fire season, researchers found that human-caused climate change had a strong influence on the amount of area burned. [61] In early June, the province saw multiple wildfires in or near Peachland and on Vancouver Island near both Port Alberni and Sayward. [62] As of June 2, there were 54 active fires in the ...