alberta fires

[Trip McNeely]

has the u.s. sent or will be sending resources to alberta to help fight that monster of a fire up there? just got to thinking I haven't heard about us sending aby help up to our friendly neighbors to the north. surely you would think if we can pour billions into helping the worthless middle-east countries we would lend a hand to one of our most loyal allies.

 

[Traxion]

The video is incredible. Lucky that all got out. I saw something like 180,000 acres now, which is nuts in that short of time. I would sure hope we are sending help in terms of ground resources. And, I hope we are sending up help for all the folks displaced.

I heard something like 18 aircraft right now are working. Alberta has a pinched budget this year so I doubt they will be calling and US operators. Just gotta get some lines in front of it and hope to slow it down until they can get a good stop in front of it or some better weather.

1600 plus homes burned and that will go up along with lots of businesses. It's a crazy deal and it could be a lot of urban interface type cities in the US. Hope a lot of things are learned!

 

[5575]

Go to about the 1:00 mark, talk about a drive through hell to get out!

 

[dean nelson]

Much of it well be over for the town soon and there isn't much out east of there. Canada tends to let allot of these bushfires burn since they have so much ground and not enough people to cover it. Can't imagine how crazy it must be up there for all of them. Be waiting to see some liberal blam it on the oil sands operations even though it was well away from the plants.

 

[Walleye_Chaser]

Wow that video is insane

 

[1pingonly]

cant imagine the heat they felt in those vehicles

 

[labhunter66]

Much of it well be over for the town soon and there isn't much out east of there. Canada tends to let allot of these bushfires burn since they have so much ground and not enough people to cover it. Can't imagine how crazy it must be up there for all of them. Be waiting to see some liberal blam it on the oil sands operations even though it was well away from the plants.

If you read any comments from articles online at other sites you'll see that many of them do blame it on the tar sands operations.

 

[eyexer]

If you read any comments from articles online at other sites you'll see that many of them do blame it on the tar sands operations.

libtards always seem to show their ignorance.

 

[lunkerslayer]

I sure hope we don't have a fog like summer, last year sucked as far a growing a garden especially since it was quite dry. Alberta has been dealing with a beetle that has been killing off 1000 of acres pine trees, which has be going on for over a decade.
My dad gets pallet stringers from a Canadian lumber dealer for a fraction of a price compared to our lumber costs.
California is dealing with a fungus that is killing of huge portions off oak and tanaoak trees. Which will be worse because oak trees take much longer to grow, could you imagine the heat those hard woods put out.

 

[johnr]

Its unprecedented

 

[Up Y'oars]

The Fort McMurray fire covers 85,000 hectares. This overlays gives you some perspective.

Can you imagine the fire this large AND the flames 50'-60' in the air?? Looking at that video above make one wonder if you were sitting in that string of cars unable to move forward, what the temp was like sitting in the passenger seat? That had to be blistering the paint job of each vehicle going by!

Way up in Northern Alberta there's not many roads to get you out of town in the direction necessary. Bring on some heavy rains, Mother Nature!!

 

[dean nelson]

I sure hope we don't have a fog like summer, last year sucked as far a growing a garden especially since it was quite dry. Alberta has been dealing with a beetle that has been killing off 1000 of acres pine trees, which has be going on for over a decade.
My dad gets pallet stringers from a Canadian lumber dealer for a fraction of a price compared to our lumber costs.
California is dealing with a fungus that is killing of huge portions off oak and tanaoak trees. Which will be worse because oak trees take much longer to grow, could you imagine the heat those hard woods put out.

That area is not part off the bettle kill so they didn't play a roll. As for California's oak trees they would be far easier to fight just like our cottonwood are. Conifers sap is highly flammable thus why they candle out so well which is when the whole tree goes up in seconds shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air and launching embers for miles. You will never see an oak do that unless you perfectly timed it to the fall leaf drop and even then the leaves are likely still to wet. The beetle kill lumber is the standard lumber for just about everywhere now since it's cheep and allows the cutting of old growth forest which pays out way better. When I lived in Colorado cutting clear cuts around resorts and towns as fire breaks is how I maid a living and it actually paid better then when I worked in the oil field. Plus I got the joy of pissing of hippies and yuppy liberals when they would come up from Dever to their cabin that was in the forest last weekend and was now a huge clear cut.....their reaction always maid me smile. As for the smoke it's bound to be crappy again this year and I see it's listed in bismarcks forcast today.



This is the best shot I've seen of it from the air and this was only as of Wednesday.

 

[NodakBuckeye]

Incredible videos of that fire, feel bad for those folks. When I was kid growing up in Flagstaff, Az. there was a big fire that started just north of town and raced up Mt. Eldon. I remember watching the planes flying over low going in to drop slurry, could see the pilots. Watching from my elementary playground you could see those big ponderosa pines just explode and torch out sending flames twice as tall as the trees. They just were able to get the fire lookout guy out in the nick of time up on top of the mountain. Burned 55k acres, child's play compared to this beast in Alberta.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Canada has too many trees anyway.... :::

 

[WormWiggler]

Balzac... what a country

crazy video

 

[svnmag]

How are these fires able to burn with the extreme excess of CO2?

 

[dean nelson]

Interesting map of the fires growth since monday.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...you-can-help-and-receivehelp/article29850877/

 

[Riggen&Jiggen]

These damn fires! At noon today in Minot no trace of smoke. At 3pm started to see some haze and could smell the smoke. The haze is increasing as I type this. I hope the hell it goes out soon. Last summer sucked we had over a month of smoke. I sure wish we could get a pattern of any wind other than NW.

 

[svnmag]

I pray they get a good steady soaker SOON. Not a deluge.

 

[NodakBuckeye]

Smoke was terrible in Minneapolis when we arrived at 1 am this morning, visibility under a mile, eyes watering, kids hacking. Cleared up this morning