The Wildfires thread

[bing101]

Wildfires are reported in parts of Canada as of this posting.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-canada-forces-evacuate-smoke-dangerous-air-quality/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/spreading-western-canada-wildfire-prompts-thousands-evacuate-2024-05-12/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfire-canada-forces-evacuate-smoke-dangerous-air-quality/

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/canadian-wildfires-sending-smoke-to-minnesota-wisconsin/

[SSOWorld]

Not a year to do the Alaska Highway.  Glad I have it done.

[bing101]

https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-fort-nelson-british-columbia-dace46a958c9426056eb7da908a3f115

The point of origin of the Canada Wildfires is reportedly in Fort Nelson, BC.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-alberta-1.7202431


Parts of Alberta faces wildfire threats too.

[SSOWorld]

The goog has marked the Alaska Highway and the Liard Highway closed.  The BC Fire map confirms the former, just saying the latter has limited visibility (but for all intents and purposes is blocked).  Those tourists will have to maneuver to the Cassiar highway now.

[bing101]

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/wildfire-forces-evacuation-four-suburbs-western-canada-oil-town-2024-05-14/


Dang an oil sands field is near one of the affected areas of the Canada Wildfire.

[JayhawkCO]

Fortunately, a big snow storm in the mountains over the weekend has brought the whole state of Colorado over the median snowpack, so we should (knock on wood) have a low fire year. The numbers are the percentages of the median for each river basin.

[bing101]

https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-alberta-fort-mcmurray-evacuation-0958bc6924930c91beb41aed992bb4f1

Here is an update on one of the wildfires from Alberta.

[epzik8]

https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-alberta-fort-mcmurray-evacuation-0958bc6924930c91beb41aed992bb4f1

Here is an update on one of the wildfires from Alberta.

Fort McMurray seems to bear the brunt of a lot of fires from what I've seen online.

[bing101]

https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-alberta-fort-mcmurray-evacuation-0958bc6924930c91beb41aed992bb4f1

Here is an update on one of the wildfires from Alberta.

Fort McMurray seems to bear the brunt of a lot of fires from what I've seen online.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fort-nelson-bc-wildfire-evacuation-more-police-power-generators-1.7207610

And here is an update on the Fort Nelson fires in BC. 

[triplemultiplex]

Thin topsoil and forest that's basically all conifers; that's the boreal forest powderkeg.  Doesn't take much to dry it out and then when it burns, it burns.

[bing101]

I guess this is the new normal.  Every year, a couple small towns will get torched by wildfires.

True and the crazy part is that these fires are not just a major risk in places like California and other places with a Mediterranean climate  but also hitting areas where wildfires previously were not known to happen every year. 

[Max Rockatansky]

Towns burning down in the western wilderness traditionally has been the "old normal."

[bing101]

Here is one from the Tracy area a wildfire is reported.

Yes this affects areas near I-580.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/corral-fire-tracy-sunday-latest/103-5fcc111f-be6e-4f9a-ad25-d8ae8e40904b

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm getting smoke from that down in Fresno and Firebaugh.  Good things I went to drive Mines Road a couple weeks ago.

[cl94]

580 might be shut down for a while, given that it jumped the freeway. That's going to make a mess.

[bing101]

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hundreds-of-acres-burned-in-grass-fire-near-lawrence-livermore-lab-in-east-bay/

Here is more on the fire near Tracy

[bing101]

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/corral-fire-lawrence-livermore-lab-tracy-19491019.php

Here is more on the wildfire in Tracy, California.  Note this update includes the reopening of I-580 in the area. 

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https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/wildfires-tracker-canada

Here are some of the ongoing fires in Canada as of June 2024.