Many of the blazes burning across the province have been smoked out for a number of days and have resulted in poor air quality, but have helped in the fire fight.
The remarks by Cliff Chapman with the B-C Wildfire Service come as a thick layer of smoke settles over the city of Penticton, B.C., and drifts south from the Summerland region, where the Bald Range fire forced thousands to flee.
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Chapman says the smoke settled in valley bottoms and was helping suppress flames by preventing the fires from contacting clean oxygen and spreading.
He says a shift in weather that causes the smoke to clear may increase the potential of the fire spreading.
About 100 fires are burning across B.C., with about half burning out of control.
Chapman says there had been fire growth on many of the wildfires burning across B.C. despite tempered wind, which also speaks to the dryness and drought conditions in southern B.C.
We’d have fewer fires and they’d be less worse if there weren’t so many logging restrictions. The NDP are the problem, but so are all the c h ugs. We should have eliminated them all centuries ago. Let’s take them all out and bury them in the supposed gravesites besides the Residential Schools.
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I love how they’ll say pretty much anything now a days with these fires. The fact remains, their not tapping into the expertise to deal with these fires.
resulted in poor air quality, but have helped in the fire fight. Hahaha yeah that makes sense