Month: August 2018
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Smoke clears a little air quality slowly improving. Sunny and warm for days. Good luck to our firefighters.
I don’t know about you but I’ve had a pretty persistent cough over the past day or two. I blame the smoke. Most of my family has it too. So it was nice to wake up this morning and see what seemed like slightly clearer skies. As I drove over the hump and came into…
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Northwest BC Fire Smoke will keep temperatures below forecast. See Imagery and a note on Fire Climate.
So if you watched my live facebook or twitter feed this morning you’d already know that above the fog… which is still pretty prominent this morning. There is a thick layer of smoke. I’m tagging this post climate change because… well… ya, more on that at the end of the post. I thought yesterday that…
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Arbutus Ridge Updates 20Ha – No Yellow Creek Fire – Rain and possible Lightning mainly confined to East Coast
It was quite a night last night. The Arbutus Ridge fire glowed prominently over the city and provided quite a show. The picture below was taken through the binoculars at Harbour Quay. The fire has grown to 20 hectares and is now a Fire of Note on BCWS. The good news about that is we…
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Updating – New fire on Arbutus Ridge over Inlet – Weekend Forecast later
5:45PM Update – New Video – New Fire Status – New Lightning. On the fires: Here’s some more video from this afternoon. The longer clip is from 5:15PM this evening. The wind is obviously going to be giving the fire fighters troubles and it is also spreading smoke across the west and north sectors of…
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Refresh to see Updates – Third Fire in Two Days starts near Horne Lake – If you have info please get in touch – Also Turtle Lake Fire relit?
6:00PM – Final Update Beaufort holding. An update from the City of Port Alberni: The BC Wildfire Service crews and ACRD Fire Department staff, assisted by three helicopters and several pieces of heavy equipment, have been working throughout the day to create fire breaks around the Lacy Lake fire, specifically in the area that it…