Canadian Crews Battle Wildfire Threatening Remote Western Town May 14, 2024 By Ismail Shakil Firefighters on Monday battled a large wildfire heading towards a remote western Canadian town as winds and tinder dry conditions...
Western Canada Wildfires Prompt Evacuations, Air Quality Warnings May 13, 2024 The season’s first major wildfires have spread to roughly 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) across Western Canada on Sunday as authorities...
Fires From 2023, Smoldering Under Snow, Reveal Canada’s Dangerous New Reality March 27, 2024 By Thomas Seal and Robert Tuttle As skiers glide down the slopes of British Columbia’s Whistler Mountain and ice fishers drop their lines into frozen lakes...
Canada’s Wildfires Burn Record 25 Million Acres With No End in Sight July 17, 2023 By Mathieu Dion Canadian wildfires have scorched more than 10 million hectares (25 million acres) this summer, an area about the size of...
British Columbia Wildfires Continue to Rage, Torching 1,235-Plus Square Miles July 21, 2017 British Columbia is extending a state of emergency for two more weeks as wildfires sweeping across the province’s interior show...
British Columbia Wildfires Expected to Worsen; Nearly 40,000 People Evacuated July 19, 2017 Fast-moving wildfires in British Columbia have forced nearly 40,000 people to leave their homes and residents are flooding into crowded...
British Columbia’s Wildfires Threaten Lumber Supplies, Force Mine Closures July 18, 2017 By Jen Skerritt Wildfires sweeping across British Columbia, the world’s biggest exporter of softwood lumber, sent timber prices surging and forced the closure...
300-Plus Canadian Wildfires Force Closures of Lumber Mills, Natural Gas Facility July 12, 2017 By Danielle Bochove, Natalie Obiko Pearson and Jen Skerritt More than 300 wildfires in British Columbia have forced Canadian lumber mills and an Enbridge Inc. natural gas compressor station...