I’m in awe of the people who go to fight these fires. Staggeringly hard, physically demanding work and extreme danger. I don’t know how the crews can remain hopeful when faced with the almost impossible task of extinguishing or controlling the fire.
We visited relatives in north and south Idaho and in Albuquerque when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s. Fires like these sure didn’t seem to be a problem back then. I remember clear blue crystalline summer skies, not hazy, smoke-clouded reddish skies for months on end.
What accounts for the huge increase in BC fires? Did Canada adopt the same environmental policies that the US did? They have continued extensive logging unlike the US, but their fires seem to be even larger than ours.
I’m in Alberta. Some fires were probably natural, but so many happened after the storms that I’m convinced some had help. This one of the ways we found through our intelligence gathering overseas that Islam wants to target the west. So, I’d be looking at all the options.