2026 Wildfire Season

[dapaterson]

Decades ago the Ontario Science Centre (RIP) had a very basic, pixelated 8-bit game where players attempted to control a forest fire with a variety of earthmoving, ground, backfire, and aerial resources. It was nearly impossible to succeed...

That firefighting game I played in Toronto

"What is the first computer game that you played?" One of those social forum threads which is really about reader demographics rather than games. Still, I tried to remember. No, my answer wasn't Adventure. I played Adventure in '79 or so -- ...

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[foresterab]

If there are US wildfire crews in Canada, I hope they are treated with respect and gratitude.

Never an issue on the fireline. When you're sweating beside the person beside you trying to achieve the same goals it's mutual respect.

Laughs and jokes between differences sure...but it's a mark of professional pride to be chosen to represent your agency/province/country when on export and you get better than average crews normally.

Frankly now the joke is where/when should we meet up next....some US crews I've seen 3 and 4 times. Same with other international resources.

Makes me think of some of the RCN and CAF members deploying, backfilling the next deployment, deploying etc....our deployments are just shorter so easier on the family side than the multi-month CAF taskings