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From: LoneClone	7/24/2024 12:15:36 PM
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Another day, another hundred fire starts across BC... There are currently 430 wildfires in BC, with about 60% classed as out of control, as well as 20 Evacuation Orders and 28 Evacuation Alerts. More than 25k people have been evacuated from Jasper, just across the Alberta border, through BC. There has been a heroic effort across rural BC to help the fire refugees as they take stock and then make their way to their next destination. Here's a measure of how dangerous conditions are right now -- it was only two hours from the time the most threatening of the fires sparked and the Evacuation Order being proclaimed. We talk about bomb cyclones; this was a bomb wildfire. I got the name of the highway from Jasper to Banff through the spine of the Rockies wrong -- it is of course dubbed the Icefields Parkway. It is one of the great drives in the world, though it sure has changed since the first time I visited it over 50 years ago. Then the famed Columbia Icefields reached within a few hundred metres of the Parkway, but these days its toe is kilomtres further back from the road. guardiansoftheice.com

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