2024 Wildfire Season
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Haggis
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"The Perfect Storm" starring George Clooney has been running on cable channels quite a bit over the last few days.But you lose four fisherman for a few days...
'Nothing short of a miracle': Missing N.L. fishing crew arrives home safely
Fishing boat lost contact Wednesday evening
So has "Zero Dark Thirty" for that matter. Something we don't know yet????
How many people visit Labrador City compared to how many visited Jasper National Park?
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I would not want to be any senior management in Parks Canada visiting Jasper or the area for the next couple of years.
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and thats politics at play, from reading their website it sounds like Parks Canada had more a mitigation role then an actual fighting roll except for municipal fire departments which had wildfire crews, anything more and they asked AB for help. Problem is as you mention, if locals don't let them do whats needed it can be an issue. It should be noted that parks Canada did build a rather substantial fire break around the town were being built this spring
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Thanks for your bit of the REST of the story - take care of yourself as much as you can in these crazy times
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Oh FFS.
www.nationalobserver.com
The blaze in Jasper fueled a wider disinformation firestorm
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
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This is the formal, outward facing assesment. Green is intact. Red is destroyed. And Yellow is visable damage.
Released today to show a better context of where the fire hit town and what survived...
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This a huge problem and it's not just with this fire. In an age of instant media updates and snapshot reporting the is more and more pressure to ensure you have not only 100% accurate information but also almost instant updates....but it's just not possible. In the absence of information then you get the theories and rumor mill going. Plus there are more and more alternate sources of information than the government agencies compared to 10 or 20 years ago so it's even easier to start spinning stories.Oh FFS.
The blaze in Jasper fueled a wider disinformation firestorm
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
I will give kudo's to Jasper information officers on this one...they have been fairly consistent with 4x a day updates and while it hasn't been as specific as people may want they are not only explaining the actions for each time period but the goal moving forward. For example they waited until the full town survey was done before releasing the information as complete as possible to get ahead of the rumor mill/video clips/media screen shots of what remains.
Have they done everything I would have liked...no. But having been in their shoes I also would consider that one part of the response that is going as well as can be expected in a super-charged political mess.
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It is tragic and it’s life affecting for these people. But this is better than the initial assessment from early when it moved into town.
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I lived in a community many years ago that had several nearby fire when social media was just getting going (very early 2010s). The BC Forest Service, regional district and municipality were posting updates on Facebook. In the comments section, people were posting all kinds of misinformation, like the fire had jumped the river or had reached the community. Not based on reality. It was the first time I saw social media being used to spread misinformation in real time.Oh FFS.
The blaze in Jasper fueled a wider disinformation firestorm
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
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There was at least one Liberal MP who thought it a good idea to tweet out how Jasper was a result of conservatives being opposed Liberal Climate Change policies, so yeah, lots of idiots, all around.Oh FFS.
The blaze in Jasper fueled a wider disinformation firestorm
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
I have been to both Jasper and Banff in recent years. In both cases, I was immediately concerned by over mature, fuel choked forests too close to people. We have really got to get over our fetish for not modifying the landscape in National Parks. If you look at pictures of both Banff and Jasper from the late 1890s, the forest cover on the mountains around both towns was considerably more sparse. What we now, thanks to nearly complete fire suppression from the end of WW2 is not natural, at all. Either we burn or log those forests under our terms or Nature will eventually burn it without regard to us humans.
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Surprised I'm not seeing as many social media hints at arson being the cause of the wildfires as I've seen in other situations where there's a crapload of forest fires happening in/around one place.Oh FFS.
The blaze in Jasper fueled a wider disinformation firestorm
As wildfires scorch ever-larger parts of Canada and force thousands to evacuate, they are fueling the spread of right-wing disinformation and climate conspiracy theories.
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As Jasper is a National Park, will rebuilding will be subject to the Federal governments ever responsive public service/bureaucracy.
Is the actual townsite not a normal municipality?
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An interesting report from 2020.
IIRC that funding for fire mitigation is lower than flood damage because fire damage, unlike flooding etc, can be covered by insurance in many cases.
Wildfire suppression contributes to a wildfire problem but paradoxically it is wildfire use that will help to solve this problem (double fire paradox). The wildfire management toolbox must include wildfire use to manage wildfires at the landscape scale because it is not feasible to effectively use prescribed burns and/or fuel management treatments alone to restore expansive wildfire-dependent ecosystems [70,71].
A major barrier in Canada to address the double fire paradox is the inadequate funding to support the vision of an innovative and integrated approach to wildfire management. Mitigation funding has followed wildfire disasters but not at the same level to mitigate flood [72] and earthquake disasters [73]. Despite the increasing occurrence of wildfire disasters in Canada, funding to support wildfire prevention, mitigation and preparedness have not kept pace with the increasing need to mitigate the impacts from wildfires, and be better prepared when they do arrive. This disparity in funding has left agencies with few options to confront the changing wildfire environment. They can reduce their performance targets and accept more losses, or reduce their primary protection areas and focus on protecting high priority values-at-risk. Unfortunately, these types of management adaptations and the increasing risk of major losses from wildfire are not well understood by the public or politicians.
To overcome the many challenges confronted by wildfire management agencies, we propose a paradigm shift to strengthen suppression capacity and capability, enhance values protection (FireSmart), and allow more managed wildfire on the landscape (Figure 5). To accomplish this, agencies need to align their capacity and capability to use a risk-based appropriate response approach that supports both wildfire suppression and use.
IIRC that funding for fire mitigation is lower than flood damage because fire damage, unlike flooding etc, can be covered by insurance in many cases.
Wildfire management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities
Wildfire suppression contributes to a wildfire problem but paradoxically it is wildfire use that will help to solve this problem (double fire paradox). The wildfire management toolbox must include wildfire use to manage wildfires at the landscape scale because it is not feasible to effectively use prescribed burns and/or fuel management treatments alone to restore expansive wildfire-dependent ecosystems [70,71].
A major barrier in Canada to address the double fire paradox is the inadequate funding to support the vision of an innovative and integrated approach to wildfire management. Mitigation funding has followed wildfire disasters but not at the same level to mitigate flood [72] and earthquake disasters [73]. Despite the increasing occurrence of wildfire disasters in Canada, funding to support wildfire prevention, mitigation and preparedness have not kept pace with the increasing need to mitigate the impacts from wildfires, and be better prepared when they do arrive. This disparity in funding has left agencies with few options to confront the changing wildfire environment. They can reduce their performance targets and accept more losses, or reduce their primary protection areas and focus on protecting high priority values-at-risk. Unfortunately, these types of management adaptations and the increasing risk of major losses from wildfire are not well understood by the public or politicians.
To overcome the many challenges confronted by wildfire management agencies, we propose a paradigm shift to strengthen suppression capacity and capability, enhance values protection (FireSmart), and allow more managed wildfire on the landscape (Figure 5). To accomplish this, agencies need to align their capacity and capability to use a risk-based appropriate response approach that supports both wildfire suppression and use.
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Yes, within the National Park.
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I am fairly certain that Parks Canada gets a say about the townsite.
If the town of Jasper wants to issue a building permit for a story hotel, it is almost a certainty Parks Canada could veto it (hypothetical situation…)
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