2025 Wildfire Season

[Quirky]

Active wildfires in Saskatchewan surpass 25, heart of La Ronge ordered out

Wildfires are continuing to grow in northern Saskatchewan as evacuation alerts have been issued for residents in La Ronge.

www.ctvnews.ca

An interesting aspect to the fires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba is that right now almost all of 3rd Division’s forces are otherwise engaged supporting the G7.

Any significant ground forces past sub unit size would likely have to come from Canada.

The general public still thinks the CAF should be there to fight fires and swoop in on a moments notice to provincial demands.

 

[MilEME09]

The general public still thinks the CAF should be there to fight fires and swoop in on a moments notice to provincial demands.

maybe the provinces would take preparedness more seriously if we started making the foot the bill for DOMOPS

 

[Quirky]

maybe the provinces would take preparedness more seriously if we started making the foot the bill for DOMOPS

Public doesn’t care who pays for it.

 

[MilEME09]

Public doesn’t care who pays for it.

Public isn't the target audience at that point.

 

[HavokFour]

Elizabeth May managed to put together an interesting idea (but not exactly a new one), what are everyone's thoughts on it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930426063378886834

I fear I might have to start reporting myself as a smoker to my doctor, gotten use to all the smoke in the air here in Ottawa.

 

[OldSolduer]

Elizabeth May managed to put together an interesting idea (but not exactly a new one), what are everyone's thoughts on it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930426063378886834

I fear I might have to start reporting myself as a smoker to my doctor, gotten use to all the smoke in the air here in Ottawa.

I'm actually not opposed to this but I think it needs some more detail. Our premier Wab said almost the same thing. He thinks a national fire fighter organization needs to be looked at.

 

[MilEME09]

I'm actually not opposed to this but I think it needs some more detail. Our premier Wab said almost the same thing. He thinks a national fire fighter organization needs to be looked at.

instead of the coast guard its the "land guard" a national level organization would make sense in a way but I think this is pushing on the feds a provincial problem. By this i mean we are having the feds having to foot the bill and if her idea pans out, create an entire organization dedicated to just disaster response thats happening more and more because of a lack of preparedness and planning from provinces.

Watching CTV they interviewed one chief from Manitoba, represents a community of 10,000, and they have 1 fire truck. Now this brings up a million questions on funding etc but more importantly I see it has the province not making sure communities are prepared.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Nova Scotia created this:

Nova Scotia Guard

nsguard.ca

 

[YZT580]

Elizabeth May managed to put together an interesting idea (but not exactly a new one), what are everyone's thoughts on it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930426063378886834

I fear I might have to start reporting myself as a smoker to my doctor, gotten use to all the smoke in the air here in Ottawa.

shades of the peace corps. We don't need to waste valuable and scarce defense dollars on a feel-good programme for left-wing peaceniks.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

shades of the peace corps. We don't need to waste valuable and scarce defense dollars on a feel-good programme for left-wing peaceniks.

If the feds are going to do something like this, Public Safety should do it. Not DND.

 

[dapaterson]

I think such emergency preparedness fall under the 1.5 of 3.5+1.5 = 5% of GDP.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

I think such emergency preparedness fall under the 1.5 of 3.5+1.5 = 5% of GDP.

Wonderful. A land version of the RCAF SAR mandate, which occupies a significant portion of the bandwidth of 1 Cdn Air Div.

 

[dapaterson]

Wonderful. A land version of the RCAF SAR mandate, which occupies a significant portion of the bandwidth of 1 Cdn Air Div.

Something to be said for things that keep your HHQ distracted and ignoring you...

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Something to be said for things that keep your HHQ distracted and ignoring you...

Debatable. There are have been times when issues have piled up at the Commander’s office await decisions, but…SAR.

 

[lenaitch]

So yesterday one of the chiefs of an evacuated northern reserve was wondering why some of his band were kicked out of hotels.

Let me see....the last time this happened they were housed in the RBC Convention Centre where they urinated and defecated in the stair wells, among other things. The RBC is not putting up with that this time round.

Having to extract witnesses from remote FNTs into a city for trials, I can relate.

Watching CTV they interviewed one chief from Manitoba, represents a community of 10,000, and they have 1 fire truck. Now this brings up a million questions on funding etc but more importantly I see it has the province not making sure communities are prepared.

It's not uncommon for some northern Ontario FNTs to have a fire truck, but no heated place to store it, which makes it kinda useless in the winter.

FNTs get caught up in the 'federal-provincial jurisdictional' tug-o-war.

 

[daftandbarmy]

If the feds are going to do something like this, Public Safety should do it. Not DND.

I didn't credit Elizabeth with studying the rise of Nazi Germany...

Reich Labour Service - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Brad Sallows]

Elizabeth May managed to put together an interesting idea (but not exactly a new one), what are everyone's thoughts on it?

That if anyone attempts it, they must stick to nuts-and-bolts domops ("assistance", not "aid") as the foundation and rigorously keep climate change politics and grifting out of it. Focus on wildfires, floods, SAR, earthquakes, severe storms. Recognize that direction/co-ordination, movement, and logistical support of people and resources that already exist is the keystone and don't unnecessarily burn money creating new coal-front teams.

 

[Cloud Cover]

BC Interior could get some rain in the next few days, but unfortunately it’s coming with . We’ve been under clear bright blue skies, very low humidity (currently 24% and rising) this past two weeks with temps lately hitting 35-39 on the valley floors. Everything in the bush and fields crunches under the feet from being dried out, the air feels hot to breathe like a hair dryer blowing up your nose lol. And dusty, holy smokes it’s dusty. Fingers crossed, water totes out, hoses pre-laid up to the interface. I’ve got 10 acres set aside for livestock evacuation. Got lots of hay. Setting up fencing today, trench digging a few water lines and some power conduit as well.
Now is not the time to have a campfire in the bush or at an RV site and I don’t understand why we do not have a province wide ban on them right now.

 

[daftandbarmy]

But where will the climbing bums live now?

There are some major pieces of transmission infrastructure passing through that neck of the woods. I wonder if any of it is at risk...

Squamish wildfire remains out-of-control, grows to 20 hectares

The wildfire that is threatening parts of the north end of Squamish continues to burn Wednesday. The fire is now 20 hectares.

vancouver.citynews.ca

 

[Cloud Cover]

I thought it rained all the time in Squamish.