Oh this is good news for a Friday afternoon: @cabinradio reporting residents of the Northwest Territories communities of Yellowknife, Dettah and Ndılǫ will be able to return home starting next week, three weeks after having to evacuate due to #wildfire threat.
#Canada #CanadaWildfire

https://cabinradio.ca/149143/news/yellowknife/yellowknifers-told-they-can-return-from-wednesday-september-6/

Seasonal total #wildfire total area burned in #Canada, 1980 to 2023. For this year, total burned through August 29 at 15.20 million hectares. That's more than 8 times the 43 year median and almost exact double the previous record of 7.65 million hectares burned in 1989. Data from Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre #Summer2023 #CanadaWildfire @evaholland @McYukon

Quite the piece of work that one is! "RCMP investigating Katrina Nokleby’s return to Yellowknife" https://cabinradio.ca/146553/news/politics/rcmp-investigating-katrina-noklebys-return-to-yellowknife/

#CanadaWildfire #NWT #Yellowknife #Wildfires #CanPoli

Latest #wildfire estimate from Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Climate Change shows 3.43 million hectares burned thus far in 2023. This is now the greatest area burned in NWT in the past 44 years, eclipsing the previous highest of 3.41 million ha in 2014. 2023 area is sure to increase. #ntwx #Arctic #Canada #CanadaWildfire #Summer2023
@m_parrington @evaholland @McYukon @cabinradio

Government of Northwest Territories, #Canada updated estimate of #wildfire area burned is now at 3.36 million ha (7.76 million acres). Since 1988, the most area burned in season in the NWT was 3.42 million ha in 2014. #ntwx #Summer2023 #CanadaWildfire

#Canada fackelt gerade ab. Das ist so furchtbar. 1000e Quadratkilometer Wald zerstört. Das sind die schlimmsten #Waldbrände #CanadaWildfire der Geschichte des Landes. #klimakatastrophe #Klimawandel

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/kanada-zehntausende-muessen-vor-waldbraenden-fliehen-a-e2bb3aef-bd43-472d-af35-91e55f797eaa

I am so proud to hear two of our 4 local fire departments have been able to answer the call and send resources (people, trucks and tenders) to West Kelowna. Some are friends, all are neighbours. Thank you Sproat Lake and Cherry Creek VFDs!! Over 100 firefighters from all over the province of BC have joined the fight today, they drove through the night to get there. Multiple structures lost last night, but also multiple saved, including homes, condo towers, and critical infrastructure like a brand new, not-yet-turned on, $75M drinking water treatment plant. The weather is backing off, just a little. I hope that means we will be able to get a handle on it. #BCWildfire #CanadianWildfires #CanadaWildfire #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange

I am so proud to hear two of our 4 local fire departments have been able to answer the call and send resources (people, trucks and tenders) to West Kelowna. Some are friends, all are neighbours. Thank you Sproat Lake and Cherry Creek VFDs!! Over 100 firefighters from all over the province of BC have joined the fight today, they drove through the night to get there. Multiple structures lost last night, but also multiple saved, including homes, condo towers, and critical infrastructure like a brand new, not-yet-turned on, $75M drinking water treatment plant. The weather is backing off, just a little. I hope that means we will be able to get a handle on it. #BCWildfire #CanadianWildfires #CanadaWildfire #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange

How "over the top" is this year's #wildfire season across #Canada? The 13.7 million hectares burned (thus far) is seven times the 1980-22 median and is 56 percent higher than the previous highest seasonal total (1989)! That's WAAAY over the top. Data from Canadian Wildland Fire Information System. #Summer2023 #CanadaWildfire

Today on my way home I was stuck in the line on #bchwy4 due to the reconstruction after the June fire. While I was waiting I saw a familiar Volunteer Fire Department truck and tender drive past going East. This was just minutes after hearing that the Provincial State of Emergency had been called due to the fires in the Interior. I know the chief of that department. We went to high school together. So I texted him and wished him and his crews good luck as I figured they were on their way to the ferry and the mainland to help. He texted back and confirmed. I hope he and all the first responders called in to help are OK.
#CanadianWildfires #CanadaWildfire #BCWildfires #wildfire #ClimateChange #BCPoli #CanPoli

A full rundown of all of the communities impacted in Northwest Territories including ongoing events in Yellowknife, Hay River, and Fort Smith is at https://cabinradio.ca they are also on Mastodon! @cabinradio !
#Wildfires #NWT #CanadaWildfire
https://cabinradio.ca/143502/news/yellowknife/live-overnight-arson-attempt-in-yellowknife/

MY closest friend has just left Yellowknife and is driving to #Calgary where I am. The #wildfire could move up to five kilometres closer to #Yellowknife https://cabinradio.ca/142024/news/environment/wildfires/the-situation-facing-the-nwt-as-wednesday-dawns/ #canadawildfire

Elevated smoke from Northwest Territories #wildfires has moved west into #Alaska. In the eastern Brooks Range and northeast Interior it's thick to be obvious, as seen in this Wednesday morning FAA webcam image from Vashrąįį K’ǫǫ (Arctic Village).

As of Wednesday AM, wildfire area burned this season:
NWT 959,999 ha (2.37 million acres), most since 2014
Yukon Territory: 43,043 ha (106.4k acres)
Alaska: 766 ha (1.9k acres)
#akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Summer2023 #CanadaWildfire
@Climatologist49

Idiots
#BCWildfire #CanadaWildfire #Drone #ATV
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/drones-atvs-hamper-b-c-s-wildfire-fighting-efforts/

Canada has been affected by an ongoing, record-setting series of wildfires since March 2023. Carbon dioxide emissions from the fires would continue to rise drastically, according to estimates by Chinese Academy of Science. #CanadaWildfire

Via BC Wildfire Service:

The Sessel Fire: British Columbia Canada. #wildfire #BCWildfire #Canada #CanadaWildfire

After a couple of awful #AirQuality days and many loud complaints, the #CanadaWildfire #smoke is clearing over #Vermont. Local air quality is rated "good." Just in time for the charcoal grills and fireworks!

I grow more and more convinced that humans are simply not trainable.

Me: OK Google, today's weather.

Google: Today it will be mostly cloudy with a high of 82 and a low of 57. Right now it's 57 degrees with smoke.

Me: <pause>

Google: ...

Me: <looks at Google in WTF>

Google: <looks at me in "You heard me, bitch, I said SMOKE.">

#CanadaWildfire #Pittsburgh #Weather #WTF

How many wildfire sunsets are too many?

#Photography #CanadaWildfire

Just looking for Fresh Air and Terry Gross, you promised!

#CanadaWildfire