Fire Fire Everywhere Not a Fighter Anywhere
At least not at night and not with necessary equipment
Imagine being this incompetent. Literally filling your house with a powder keg and waiting for the it will come spark
Idiots think we will fall for this.
Some might call this level of incompetence actual ARSON, ASSAULT, INHUMANE DESTRUCTION OF WILDLIFE, PROPERTY THEFT.
The only the Canadian government did was scream climate change. Climate is for universal backing us into 15 minute pens. The cameras need to come down law and order for crime needs to come back. Treason laws and subversion laws need to be mounted, enforced.
Jasper blaze exposes possible flaws in Parks Canada wildfire strategy
Published Jul 25, 2024
Don’t blame the federal government for coming too slowly to Alberta’s aid in fighting the monster fire that has destroyed a significant portion of the Jasper townsite.
The problem is the reverse: Blame the feds for being to slow to ask Alberta to become part of its integrated firefighting efforts inside Jasper National Park, where Parks Canada is in charge.
Parks Canada lacks the technology and experience to fight a fire a night, meaning as two wildfires approached the resort town, efforts to control or at least divert them ceased in the dark. But Alberta has night-fighting capability.
Alberta also has the equipment and expertise to throw up giant walls of water in front of giant walls of flame (the fire approaching Jasper at times reach 100 metres high). Parks Canada doesn’t, and didn’t ask for Alberta’s help.
Mostly, though, it’s fair to blame Parks Canada for ignoring years of warnings that thousands of hectares of forest in the park had become a “powder keg” that, when ignited, would lead to a “catastrophic” wildfire.
For more than a decade, Parks Canada has allowed a pine beetle infestation to kill hundreds of thousands of trees, then left dead trees standing to become drier and more fire-prone every year.
Of course, firefighters and other first responders are still at risk fighting this fire. The tight-knit community of Jasper is still struggling with the destruction of “a significant portion” of their beloved community.
Furthermore, hundreds of people are still waiting to learn the fate of their homes, small businesses and livelihoods. So perhaps it’s a little too early for me to be pointing fingers.
But it’s not as if the issue of Parks Canada’s intentional neglect of the tinder-dry forest is something new.
As far back as 2016, Parks Canada’s then-conservation manager for Jasper, Salman Rasheed, said it was extremely dangerous to leave so many dead trees in place for so long. While it was Parks Canada policy to deal with stands of dead trees only through prescribed burns, Rasheed argued “active management” (i.e. logging of dead wood) might be necessary.
Logging as a solution was rejected in favour of greater public education on the dangers of careless extinguishment of cigarettes and campfires.
In 2017, Jasper’s popular longtime mayor, Richard Ireland, warned Parks Canada of the “major fire hazard” posed by the hundreds of thousands of dead trees. Ireland worried even then that the “increased fuel load” in the forest surrounding his town could make Jasper “the next Fort McMurray.”
In 2018, town resident Marie-France Miron started a campaign, Save Jasper, the purpose of which was to compel Parks Canada to mitigate fire risk. Her campaign included a Facebook page and a demand for a town hall with Parks Canada superintendent Alan Fehr. (Fehr is still superintendent.)
Also in 2018, the House of Commons Natural Resources committee studied the beetle problem and recommended immediate and significant intervention by Parks Canada.
Most devastating of all, that same year two longtime professional foresters, Emile Begin and Ken Hodges, did the most thorough examination of the problem and predicted a “mega fire” was inevitable unless an active intervention occurred. “Houses and livelihoods are at a very high risk of being destroyed,” unless Parks Canada stops insisting the infestation is merely part of a natural process and starts clearing out millions of tonnes of dead timber.
In the coming days, I want to find out no one has been hurt or killed, more homes than we thought are still standing, popular hotels and restaurants have survived, as have all the boutiques, ski and bike shops, souvenir stores and clothing outlets.
However, when officials begin casting around for the true cause of this fire, let’s hope they don’t single out “climate change.” Let’s hope they point to Parks Canada.
Ok and all ready for the turning of the screw? NGO and charities ask for URGENT ACTION
“Greenpeace Canada, Environmental Defence Canada and Ecojustice are among 80 organizations that have signed an open letter calling on the federal government and other lawmakers to take further action on climate change in the wake of this summer’s wildfires that destroyed part of the townsite in Jasper National Park.
“The lives of the people in Jasper, a mountain town beloved by Canadians, a place so many of us have spent time in, have been devastated because of a fast-spreading wildfire,” reads a portion of the letter dated Aug. 1. “Our hearts go out to the people of Jasper and all of the communities and Indigenous nations facing evacuation, the loss of their homes, businesses and traditional lands. We grieve with them during this unimaginably difficult time.
“To the leaders of governments in Canada, we have a different message: how many more of our communities need to burn before our leaders act with the urgency required?””
https://globalnews.ca/news/10677642/jasper-alberta-wildfires-open-letter-emissions/
WE NEED A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST PARKS CANADA ECT, maybe naming these dildo organizations for preventing further action to safeguard the community.
Albertans
Jasper residents including that Miron ĺady need to start a class action against the government
Other areas of Alberta still under pine beetle no management sue these 80 no charities for obfuscation of the issue and putting you in direct harms way.
And for mandamus ordering the government to clean your forests.
Or the province sues and takes over management.
Otherwise break up the country. You can't be in a hostage environment where your government Prefers you to burn to get you into a smart hell hole, for the next turning.
I don’t know if you had the same problem up there as we did in the state of California. The logging companies used to clear out the dead wood for free but the crazy Californians demanded that it be stopped because the companies made a small profit. That was over 30 years ago and they are paying the price big time now as forest fires have plenty of kindling to feed them.
We have pine bark beetle in many areas of the US.
We bought 32 acres and had all the pines select cut immediately. In the SE US much of the land is owned by big pulp paper mills. They manage their trees well and carefully. We seldom have forest fires in those areas.
All they would need to do is cut the specific trees that are affected. I believe it's only a couple of species. The trees that have become infested can be sold, while.the others need to be treated or burned. Many companies would probably ly love to have the wood and would cut the long dead ones, while cutting the others.