2025 Wildfire Season

[dapaterson]

The main reason for the Feds to avoid entering into this space is to avoid having to decide what's more important - a fire threatening Halifax or a fire threatening Moose Jaw.

Give resources to provinces, support inter-provincial cooperation - fantastic way for the feds to address the problem without being drawn into it.

 

[YZT580]

The main reason for the Feds to avoid entering into this space is to avoid having to decide what's more important - a fire threatening Halifax or a fire threatening Moose Jaw.

Give resources to provinces, support inter-provincial cooperation - fantastic way for the feds to address the problem without being drawn into it.

Place an order for 26 DHC515 and place two in each provincial capital. Equal assets to each. They can lend them to each other according to need without having to involve the feds at all.

 

[lenaitch]

Place an order for 26 DHC515 and place two in each provincial capital. Equal assets to each. They can lend them to each other according to need without having to involve the feds at all.

Under federal or provincial ownership?

Two to PEI and two to Ontario? Hmmm.

What would Toronto do with 2 water bombers?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Place an order for 26 DHC515 and place two in each provincial capital. Equal assets to each. They can lend them to each other according to need without having to involve the feds at all.

Most wildfire air assets are usually contracted from service providers by Provincial governments based on annual contracting processes.

Air fleets 'follow the summer' around the world and contract out as required to various national agencies as needed.

 

[YZT580]

Under federal or provincial ownership?

Two to PEI and two to Ontario? Hmmm.

What would Toronto do with 2 water bombers?

provincial ownership thus the capital of the province to place as they wish. For PEI it would provide a source of revenue as they could farm them out whenever. The point being there would be no 'provincial' prejudice. Ottawa would not be in the unenviable position of having to choose between fires in BC and fires in Alberta.

 

[YZT580]

Most wildfire air assets are usually contracted from service providers by Provincial governments based on annual contracting processes.

Air fleets 'follow the summer' around the world and contract out as required to various national agencies as needed.

And there are never enough available at the moment you need them. Its like relying on the CoOp for your shared combine during harvest. All your neighbours are after the same machinery at the same time. Its a good concept and works as a supplement but we sure didn't want to depend on it in September.

 

[dapaterson]

Most wildfire air assets are usually contracted from service providers by Provincial governments based on annual contracting processes.

Air fleets 'follow the summer' around the world and contract out as required to various national agencies as needed.

That's the BC model; not all provinces do the same.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

That's the BC model; not all provinces do the same.

There are various air services models- each tailored for the jurisdiction. The BC model of contracting air services seems to work for them, but other provinces make the Crown owned air service work, too. There is no one right model.

 

[foresterab]

The main reason for the Feds to avoid entering into this space is to avoid having to decide what's more important - a fire threatening Halifax or a fire threatening Moose Jaw.

Give resources to provinces, support inter-provincial cooperation - fantastic way for the feds to address the problem without being drawn into it.

While CIFFC sometimes has to do this triage...more importantly they also have the specifics of each provinces agreements. Not all provinces pull on the same state and international agreements so it's why Maine for example might be supporting NB, Wisconsin is supporting MB, and out west we'll see Washington State.

I do truly appreciate the under represented and hard work that goes on at CIFFC at so many levels...and the fact the federal politics stay out of things for the most part. I'd much rather support their proven success than try to stand up a brand new federal agency with many more cooks involved and confusion occuring.