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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: June 10, 2025, 3:45 pm
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District of Squamish declares state of local emergency due to
wildfire.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squamish-local-emergency-wildfire-1.7557429
Wildfire threatening properties in Brackendale, Tantalus Road
and Skyridge areas of the town.
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: July 13, 2025, 5:24 pm
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Nearly one-third of forests in northeast B.C. could burn by
year's end: province.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-third-of-prince-george-fire-centre-might-get-scorched-1.7583455
- 7,000 square kilometres have burned in Prince George Fire
Centre since June
- Over the past two fire seasons the province says wildfires
have burned more forest area in the region than in the previous
60 years combined,
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024 & 2025
DIR By: Siouxie
Date: July 14, 2025, 11:29 am
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Air quality warnings in effect for the Greater Toronto Area, as
wildfire smoke from northern Ontario impacts much of the
province. The poor air quality may persist for the next several
days for some areas :(
HTML https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM
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Re: North America Fire Season 2024 & 2025
DIR By: jsmth321
Date: August 8, 2026, 9:13 pm
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Wildfires force 20,000 to flee as British Columbia declares
state of emergency.
HTML https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-canada-evacuation-british-columbia-okanagan-61002c95f641a4060b78195b016fbea3
B.C. declares provincewide state of emergency.
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/livestory/bc-wildfires-aug-8-summerland-evacuation-9.7300648
-B.C. Premier David Eby says the entire province is now under a
state of emergency
-All 12,000 residents of the District of Summerland were ordered
to leave their homes
- 22,000 people are under evacuation orders across B.C. as of
this afternoon, while another roughly 9,700 people have been
told they should prepare to evacuate
-The Bald Range fire was first detected Friday evening at around
5:30 p.m. PT and grew to 50 square kilometres in three hours. It
nearly doubled in size overnight and had burned over 103 square
kilometres as of this afternoon.
-There are 105 wildfires burning in British Columbia as of today
— 70 of which started over the past week.
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