New Wildfire Season Underway
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 @ 3:58 AM
Prince George, B.C.- The new wildfire season is now officially underway as the new fiscal year began yesterday.
The Prince George Fire Centre was second in the Province over the 2012 season for number of fires with 389 fires, Kamloops experienced more fire activity with 469, but in the Prince George Fire Centre, flames consumed more area, burning a total of 83,864 hectares. In fact, the White Spruce Creek fire , east of fort Nelson, was the single largest wildfire in B.C. over the last fire season. That blaze covered 23,830 hectares and caused an evacuation order and area restrictions that affected oil and gas personnel in the area.
But despite that large fire, activity during the past season was 20 to 25% below average when it comes to the total number of fires in the province (1656) and the total area burned (102,086 hectares) .
The wildfire Protection branch says cooler temperatures and precipitation in the spring through to early July delayed significant fire activity until later in the summer. “With a continuing trend of minimal precipitation from August onward, the Fire Danger Rating remained elevated across the province and remained heightened well in to the fall. New fires were being discovered almost daily well in to October” reads the annual report.
The province spent approximately $155M on firefighting operations and recovered approximately $8.5M from out-of-province deployments.
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And soon stupid people will be out burning grass in there yard and set either a shed, house or bush on fire. Then have to call the fire department or Forest service to save them. This should void there insurance and be billed for the cost of the call out.
Where in hell is the grass to burn. we still have two feet if snow on our lawns. And it will probably rain all summer. There will not be any fires this year. Hows that for a fire forcast?
Cheers
Is this one of those fires we won’t have Retired.
From Saturday south of Quesnel.
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Roadside fires could be extinguished by blowing dust and dirt from our roads on them with large fans.
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