Canada is on fire

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Octavia said:
if my home was burning and the government was unable to contain a damned fire, I'd be torching governmental buildings until they did.
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The natural (or unnatural?) fires already have you covered there. Unless of course they conveniently remember how to work a fire hose when it shows up on their steps.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Northwest Territories, British Columbia and Yukon ordered to evacuate. Thousands now fleeing to the Alaska and Washington State Borders.

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Nobody is fleeing to the states. What are you even talking about? I'm gonna assume you are just being sensationalists by how you've been describing these articles. It would make zero sense for the people of Yellowknife or those near Kelowna to flee to the states.
 
Trudeau may be letting his countries people burn to death, but at least he's not a rude nazi-chud!

If only they put as much money and energy in fighting the fires as they put in pushing the clot-shot.
 
Canada at it with their flaming faggots.

I hope burned pine sap will destink Harlem and Bronx
 
Glowie said:
Canada at it with their flaming faggots.

I hope burned pine sap will destink Harlem and Bronx
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Not gonna happen. Too many other things are burning. Seen so many idiots sperging about them putting some chemical in the air to kill us all and if you aren’t stupid you’d realize it hasn’t just burned a forest but people’s homes, gas stations, refineries… of course the stuff is going to stink.

It’s strange that I don’t see any of this outside. Living less than 100 miles from the border when this started early summer You couldn’t see it was so bad. My family in other Great Lakes states said the same thing. The smell was terrible too.

After reading the article it seems like this isn’t giving up the fight and letting the city burn? It’s a new fire and not from the previous blazes they’ve been fighting. The evacuation is being done preemptively due to the air quality and concerns that the winds might spread it further. Currently the wind is pushing against the fire but because it’s high pressure they wont get rain. For the city of Yellowknife they have set up fire walls and been dousing the area in water and fire retardant chemicals already. Nowhere does the article saying they’re letting the city burn. Nowhere does the article say people are fleeing to America. Much like modern journalism this feels like an attempt to sensationalize a developing story for clicks.

@mindlessobserver consider this as well. Lahaina literally just burned down with potentially thousands of people dead because the city wasn’t evacuated and the somewhat controlled fire took a drastic turn for the worst due to winds. Not even a week after that how would it look if Canada, experiencing the same issues, decided not to evacuate a city at risk of a potential surge of the wild fire and covered in smoke that can cause people to choke? You’d be posting an article in three days talking about thousands dead and saying Canada failed to protect and evacuate its people from the wildfire.

I dunno dude. Read the room and don’t go chasing wild fires where there’s not even smoke.
 
I think @mindlessobserver has let his anti-leaf sentiments go out of control, and is cooming hard over our towns being threatened with wildfires.

Compared to you guys, we have a pretty good track record for evacuating towns before a fire hits it. Lytton, Fort McMurray, and Kelowna in 2003 are a few of the fire disasters near cities I can think of, and in those, we have a near-zero loss of life. (I am intentionally omitting Kelowna in 2023 and Yellowknife as those are still unfolding)

Meanwhile you guys have a large number of spit-roasted Hawaiians thanks to somebody thinking their town is safe from an encroaching fire and not wanting to look bad for sounding an alarm.
 
My parents had to be evacuated. They told me they waited in a line for 12 fucking hours to get on a plane to fly down to wherever theyre going. They were only allowed to bring 5 days worth of clothing but of course plenty of Natives brought way more than that and had huge bags. Apparently only about 1200 people managed to get out that day so how the fuck are they going to evacuate 20000 people in a reasonable amount of time? My dad said people who could drive were taking the flight and free hotel option anyways because they wanted a free fucking vacation. God people in this shit country make me sick
 
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
While I don't have firsthand knowledge, I think it can't really be emphasized enough how sparse and shitty the road infrastructure is in the Territories and Northern Alberta.
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I'm not going to reveal to much of my power level, but I do live in northern Alberta close to the Territories. I can verify that the roads and distances are more than most would iamginr.

We do have our own fire fighting crews but when I almost lost my home and place of work this summer and the fire engines that came had plates on them from North Dakota. Pretty fucking sad.

The federal Canadian government just doesn't give a fuck about the terroritoies and northern Alberta. Trudeau is very arrogant about it, but it's always been that way despite whatever dick head is in charge.

In fact the north west territories was so destitute you could get 20 acres of free land and 50,000 dollars to build a homestead there from the government. Some food for thought for all the doomers on the farms who think they're tough.
 
ToddleDoddle said:
Nobody is fleeing to the states. What are you even talking about? I'm gonna assume you are just being sensationalists by how you've been describing these articles. It would make zero sense for the people of Yellowknife or those near Kelowna to flee to the states.
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I was going to say that it could possibly make sense to flee west to Alaska if parts of the Yukon were affected, but the archived NYT piece doesn't even mention the territory.

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Can't even hide out in the Arctic without having to wait in line with joggers.
 
PsychoJenny said:
My parents had to be evacuated. They told me they waited in a line for 12 fucking hours to get on a plane to fly down to wherever theyre going. They were only allowed to bring 5 days worth of clothing but of course plenty of Natives brought way more than that and had huge bags. Apparently only about 1200 people managed to get out that day so how the fuck are they going to evacuate 20000 people in a reasonable amount of time? My dad said people who could drive were taking the flight and free hotel option anyways because they wanted a free fucking vacation. God people in this shit country make me sick
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If you read the article 5500+ cars left via high way and they flew 1200+ out via planes and helicopters. Being generous if each car only has 2 people in it you’re looking at 11,000 people, nearly half on the first day through the roads. This is ignore examples of buses or car pooling. Most people get stuck at the airport for hours and their planes aren’t attempting to out run a wild fire the fact it’s being done now instead of while the people are on fire is a good thing.
 
Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
I couldn't RTA due to the paywall, but I'd just point out that Kelowna, British Columbia is in the Interior, not that far from the Washington State border and nowhere close to Yellowknife or the NWT.

It would be the rough equivalent of lumping in a brushfire in Flagstaff, Arizona with a forest fire in Fargo, North Dakota.
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Kelowna is also currently on fire, right near houses.
 
mindlessobserver said:
The Canadian Governments failure to protect its own citizens is complete. The Capital of the Northwest Territories, responsible for 1.1 million Square miles of the North American Continent has been ordered to evacuate. In its entirety.

Those able to brave the smoke with masks must leave via the sole access road using N95 masks. Everyone else evacuated by air.

An absolute disgrace.


Remember leaf friends. It's all climate changes fault. Trudeau is a handsome, smiling buffoon who dindu nuffin.
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Another forrest fire in Canada two months later??? Da fuck is going on there???
 
stupid frog said:
Kelowna is also currently on fire, right near houses.
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What happened there was a fire that was already encroaching onto West Kelowna (Basically urbanized indian reserve land). On Thursday night, very heavy winds blew embers across the lake (approximately 5 kilometers) and started fires in the suburbs north of the city. The landfill is on fire and both residents and the university were evacuated as the fire spread west to east. Friday night was cooler, so the fire mainly burnt its way northward. The city core to the south will likely remain unscathed.

The Preimer has declared a provincial state of emergency and has prohibited tourist travel into the Okanagan, as anything resembling a camping spot is loaded up with evacuees.

The Okanagan region is a pretty arid area in the first place - some even call it the "interior desert".

You have to remember your window for putting out a forest fire is very small before it gets too big, and that window will shrink depending on how dry the surrounding region is. After it gets too big, your main (and often only) tactic is to try to control the spread and let it burn out.

Introvertigo said:
Another forrest fire in Canada two months later??? Da fuck is going on there???
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Are you thinking about the fires in Nova Scotia? because we always get a season of fires in BC from June-August.
 
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stupid frog said:
Kelowna is also currently on fire, right near houses.
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I did realize that.

My point was that OP grouped BC, the Yukon (which I've yet to see proof of) and the NWT as being "evacuated" in their post last night, implying there's a shared fire and operation because they share borders and geography in the north.

But British Columbia is fucking huge and Kelowna is in the south. The Kelowna fire has nothing to do with the Yellowknife evacuation, there's an entire continental divide between them.
 
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