forest fires

“Northerners are the toughest people on the planet, and we come together in a crisis”

“My doctor told me that, at that time, breathing the Okanagan air was the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarettes a day”

In B.C., Alberta and beyond, forest fires are getting larger and way more difficult to handle. Get used to it.

Edward Struzik: The California fires are a harbinger of things to come in Canada—the risks are extreme, and we’re fighting the blazes with old strategies

How do fires jump over bodies of water? Is there any ecological upside to the devastation? Fire behaviour expert Tim Lynham answers all questions

Our forests are burning more than ever before, even if an increasingly urban Canada hasn’t been paying attention

’They were ready,’ says one fire expert who knows firsthand what it’s like to fight an unpredictable wildfire

Justin Trudeau doesn’t like the link, but it’s hard to refute—and it’s hardly political to raise it

Meet the Martin Mars water bomber: A Second World War-era vintage craft that costs $10,000 per hour to fly, and is being called into action in B.C.

Lightning may be a factor in the forest fires raging in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, but the worst blazes are often man-made