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From The Article: "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere." They didn't give up. They
by geocrasher 5y ago
From The Article:
"It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."
They didn't give up. They got chased out without notice. By fire.
- swader999 5y agoThere's been fire in the area for days. Did they have any sprinklers set up? Fire guards being built? No. I don't think they had any resources there until now which is too late obviously.
- sdenton4 5y agoIt's... Canada. BC. Shall we also fault Nepal for being unprepared for tsunamis?
- bch 5y agoThis is fire county, so we’re perhaps more prepared than Nepal is for Tsunamis, but still Lytton apparently has 1 fire truck, there are fires all over the province so we’re not all just focusing on Lytton, and this swept the town in ~15 minutes. Sprinklers aren’t going to cut it. These are massive fires.
- swader999 5y agoYou should see what we do in Alberta when a town is under threat. Forestry sprinklers all over, town goes into fire smart mode, all brush cleared and so on. We learned a lot when slave lake and Fort mac burned.
- crygin 5y agoRead their comment history -- they're a climate change denier. Some people just want to watch the world burn, I guess.
- refurb 5y agoBC has a history of massive forest fires every summer.
- mnouquet 5y ago2020: 347,104 hectares 2019: 21,138 hectares 2018: 1,354,284 hectares 2017: over 1.2 million hectares 2016: 91,817 hectares 2015: no global summary 2014: 360,000 hectares Source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/about-bcws/wildfire-history/wildfire-season-summary https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/wildfire-status/ab...
- swader999 5y ago2017 and 2018 were exceptional but the trend going back decades is less hectares burned every decade. This is true world wide. I've planted six hundred hectares myself to give you perspective, these burns are easily replanted where desirable.
- mnouquet 5y agoBC had more than a millions acres burned a couple years ago. 85% of the damn province is forest, ravaged by beetle. Lots of tinder just waiting to catch fire, no excuse.