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In his Circle of Fire series, he has covered forest fires in the U.S., Australia and on a global scale. The Canadian Forest Service encouraged Pyne to tackle the topic of Canadian forest fires. The phrase "awful splendour" was taken from a quote from early Canadian naturalist Henry Youle Hind , referring to the destructive beauty of prairie fires.
Wildfire suppression has had a long and varied history in the United States. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) coordinates assistance between all provincial and territorial wildfire management agencies. [26] During a typical year there are over 9,000 forest fires in Canada, burning an average of 2.5 million hectares (ha) or 9,700 square miles (25,000 km 2). The number of fires and area burned can vary ...
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. [2] Fire-fighters from Mexico, [3] Western Australia, [2] and New Zealand were sent to assist. [3] The Canadian military also fought the ...
Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes.
FORT MCMURRAY, Canada (AP) — During a May wildfire that scorched a vast swath of spruce and pine forest in northwestern Canada, Julia Cardinal lost a riverside cabin that was many things to her ...
The worst fire on record in Ontario's history. Destroyed 49 townships, including the villages of Kelso, Val Gagné, and Iroquois Falls. [6] Great Fire of 1919: Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta Alberta Saskatchewan: May 1919: 11 [7] 2,000,000 hectares (4,900,000 acres) The first major fire at the wildland-urban interface of the Prairie Provinces ...
The Richardson Fire (also known as the Richardson Backcountry Fire) was a 2011 forest fire in the Canadian province of Alberta. It was located north of the city of Fort McMurray in an area known as the Richardson Backcountry. The fire started in mid-May 2011, and burned over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) of boreal forest.