What's behind Nova Scotia's wildfires? | About That

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Publicado 2023-05-30
Two wildfires covering more than 7,000 hectares of land have forced more than 15,000 people from their homes in Nova Scotia. Andrew Chang talks to Environment Canada's David Phillips about how the fires got out of control so quickly, and how this could be just the beginning of a challenging season.

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  • @rlee2772
    It's not warmer. We would swim in May 50 years ago now it's late June because the lakes are too cold.
  • @YoursUntruly
    Kids burning tires in the woods. I seriously hope they face HARD consequences.
  • @soyreeng8864
    The same fire was seen last week in alberta . Edmonton. Ect.
  • @angelinashankle75
    NONE of the forests have been cleared since Fiona we are in South Western NS :( scary stuff :(
  • @natural4lifemiss
    When we get hurricanes the fallen trees don't get clean up in the forest!On top of that the ground is use to having lots of snow in the winter but lately we've barely had snow the last couple winters!
  • As a nova scotian who is affected by these fires, these fires have been set by a careless person who had a backyard fire during 30km winds with 50km gusts, there was a fire ban when he decided to have his Saturday afternoon burn, and fiona did not hit the areas where these fires are, please get your geography straight, yes there are trees down, but fiona affected the north shore much more than Shelbourne or Tantallon, the biggest problem is the total disregard for the burning ban that was in place, when people have fires durring bans, there are no consequences because we dont have enough resources to enforce the law, until something drastic happens like this current situation, and now coupled with a few days of wind, and the fact that we love to build our houses and Subdivisions in the natural environment keeping the old growth between the houses, and the areas affected have no fire hydrants in the communities, the majority are on well and septic, so when fires happen we rely on the tankers to soak it down and once the tankers run dry they need to fill again, most people don't know that alot of these communities have no fire hydrants. Maby we should be investing in proper water distribution for communities instead of electric busses or maby a water bomber since we have had to rely on Newfoundland for their 2. Please pray for us, it has been a horrific ordeal, I currently am on a 30 min evacuation alert told have our essentials and pets ready to leave, in a 30 min time window, we have been sleeping in our full set of clothing for the past 3 nights, waking up at the sound of every emergency alarms alert on our phones just waiting to leave our house behind, so please stop using this tragedy to push the climate change agenda, yes absolutely climate change is real, but these fires were careless humans who clearly have no regard for their actions 😢
  • @pthawk2
    The problems are the following 1) the rapid response heli tack DNR crew was disbanded around 2014. Their capabilities routinely kept fires small ,holding fire lines until ground crews could arrive 2) The large Bell 212 helicopter was sold , tbe only one capable of handling a helitack crew and having maximum water dropping capabilities 3) the fire tower system was disbanded and the towers removed 4)the fire permit system requiring a personal visit to a DNR office was removed 5) the fuel load from last years hurricane is at a level never before seen. 6) the province does not promote winter burning of brush 7) radical environmentalist climate activists have a penchant to commit arson to push a narrative. Alberta RCMP recently charged one women with 32 counts of forest fire related arson in 2021 and other charges this year. What started the big Fort Mac fire ? What started all the fires in NS?
  • @juliebrady8583
    Is it geoengineering? Apparently its been going on in Alberta and there are plenty if wildfires over here too.
  • @OvisHerder1
    Ironic how all these "wildfires" started at the same time...
  • @sommmeguy
    How did most of the fires start? By people. But let's talk about everything else besides that.
  • @Calxdtorna
    i live here in canada and the fire is getting closer to us we might have to evacuate soon, im very worried that my home town will go to flames.
  • @1dgram
    At 1pm in NYC I had to turn the lights on in a room that usually gets lots of sunlight. It was a dark yellowish orange outside. It's a bit better now as a yellowish haze.
  • @rdallas81
    So, 100+ fires just start? No one sees the strangeness of that?
  • @65wiseman
    I live about 30 minutes outside of Boston. When I got up this morning the sky was hazy and I could smell smoke.
  • @sheenahlee
    I find it very disturbing that weather manipulation is not talked about. Or how about those planes spraying pesticides and more? This is all manmade.
  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 please ray for rains allover our beautiful beautiful land, where fires are destroying so much.
  • @rockyjay55
    Don't fire's need a Combustion source?