WILDFIRES IN CANADA | Crews retreat to safety as B.C. wildfires intensify

The fight against wildfires in B.C. has intensified after officials said blazes have become worse forcing fire crews to retreat for safety.

An aerial view of the Sabina Lake wildfire in British Columbia posted to X on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-BC Wildfire Service **MANDATORY CREDIT**

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[chrisgraham]

Recent statistics have indicated that Canadian wildfires have pumped three times more carbon into the planet's atmosphere, than Canada emits by all other means (Industry, heating, electrical generation, automobiles & trucks and all other forms of transportation). Rather than Canadians paying exorbitant Carbon Taxes, that provide no benefit to the environment, the government should be concentrated on resolving the wildfire issues. If the country is burning, the government isn't doing enough. Canada has recently been called out and embarrassed by our NATO allies for failing to spend our agreed commitment of 2% of GDP in defense spending. Defense spending is a domestic and an international expenditure. Increased defense spending can be spent for the defense of Canada against all domestic threats, including forest fires. Upgrading equipment and resources and an additional 100 waterbombing aircraft could help considerably to control wildfires before they spread to a catastrophic level. The aircraft and equipment could be procured for the Canadian Military and remain in their ownership, but be loaned or leased to fire prone provinces across the country, to be operated by military, or private personnel. The icing on the cake, is that Canada's Boreal forests contribute significantly to reduce carbon in the atmosphere for the whole planet, but they are being lost.

[stephenschulte]

Looks like somebody decided to do a back burn again.

[royallan]

You guys must see 30 odd different fires all start at opposite ends at the same time

[celestemichon]

Why not a fight against the government who is starting the wildfires why don’t you do that?

[leewalmsley]

Should have done some maintenance of the forest.

[VintageGarden-ed]

Oh sent Trudeau there to use our Carbon Tax to put it out

[jubbsicle]

not even surprised at this point
every september living in bc is like living as a frozen chicken nugget inside an oven.

[spectrumofreality]

You spelled government sponsored ecoterrorism wrong...

[alonsotron]

Arson season made worse by government incompetence. Nothing new

[Insomni_maniac]

Bruh... why are these fires still happening? We better pay more taxes! 🙄

[IsabelleWilliams-dk]

And they sending all other firecrews home???, so guess it ministry only???? They will let evertging burn.!!!

[christinedeye]

How odd how the fire seems to burn in such a straight, uniform fashion.

[VADrivers]

How about get all these bc logging companies that have been put out of work...get d10s pushing fire perimeter

[geoffclearwater]

End times !!
We wont tax our way out of this

[ShaneSkaalerud-nkjk]

They just want acreages to build stuff. Oil rigs maybe townhouses?

[FactsAllowed]

$350, 000 Canadian Tax dollars well spent on new 24/7 fire fighting, but only used in California, Australia, Bolivia, Chile.
Canadian Taxpayers must be proud.

[lawrenceveinotte]

Burn acerage will be way down this year.

[KDWALKER]

In a week or so it will all be over as winter sets in so give it a rest fired happen every year since the beginning of time

[Adyen]

Just gotta last another 2-3 decades. By then, all the forest would have burnt down and nobody will need to worry about living anymore.

[DanTesta]

Here we go again. Why are we getting reports from New Delhi though? Oh Yeah, now I remember...