Thread: Strange aircraft

I think there are not enough fire fighting aircraft in Canada to help handle all the forest fires burning now. There are not enough trained fire fighters either. Thankfully Mexico was able to send some trained help to BC and Ontario this week. The prolonged heat wave and lack of rain has created the perfect conditions for forest fires. Lots of evacuees from communities threatened by the forest fires also. Just count the red dots for the number of forest fires classed out of control.

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map

Bob

Lets see how well this works transferring from my phone to Laptop hehehe

This is the north end of our lake, that is the fire they are hitting and the info on it

To see the size of the fires in Canada click on the dots to see the size in hectares. One hectare being roughly equal to 2.5 Acres.

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map

There are plenty over 1000 Hectares/2471 Acres in size.

An example north west of us https://www.895thelake.ca/2021/07/16...ire-situation/

Bob

Yep we have much the same called Inciweb

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/


From the lake we could almost see into the canyon, the fire is actually on the back side of the ridge line so we couldn't see the actual drops..
About 20 years ago when we first moved up here the whole front ridge of the same area was burning..

I am pretty impressed with how fast they are attacking the fires now, they have put out several already that never got past the 1-10 acre size.. The attitude has changed especially over the last 5 years, we did have a more "Let it Burn" attitude unless they threatened homes.. Now it is hit them fast and hard the day they are reported..

At this point in time there are so many forest fires burning in North Western Ontario that the problem is there is now not enough planes and fire fighters to hit every fire as it springs up. They now have to pick and choose which ones are the most important to fight. The air quality is very bad today also with smoke blowing in.

Bob

Yeah we have been monitoring the AQI here too

It hasn't gone over 100 yet but we keep getting close, there was a point a few years ago when we were literally surrounded by fire from Cali, Canada, and Montana that we had the worst AQI in the world for a week IIRC we hit 500 or were very close to it..

The scale used for the Air Quality Health Index is a little different here. Today we are edging into the High Risk zone.

https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pag...naq-042_e.html

Bob

We have the same problems here in New Mexico. Most people think New Mexico and they think deserts and we have plenty but it's high desert and the whole Northern part of the state as well as areas in the south are mountains and forests and we have several fires going on. Our usual pristine air is mucked up mostly from smoke blowing in from the west. Some of the fires they just let burn if they are far enough from civilization. They need to pick their battles with limited resources.