Wild Fire

• Part of Highway 631 in northern Ontario closed as forest fire spreads

  OPP say a highway between the northern communities of White River and Hornepayne is closed due to a forest fire causing 'extremely dangerous conditions' in the area.

  Fire

  May 30, 2023
  
• Catastrophe experts say retreat from flood risk is ‘critical option’

  Preventing damage in flooding requires a more costly community-level response, he said, whether that means property buyouts or expensive dyking systems.

  Environment

  Oct 9, 2022
  
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• Winnipeg firefighters tied up with dozens of grass, wild fires

  Winnipeg fire crews have had their hands full battling grass and wild fires this spring, responding to 39 fires in April alone.

  Environment

  Apr 30, 2021
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• Saskatchewan government urging residents to be mindful in preventing wildfires

  The Saskatchewan Government is urging residents across the province to mindful when it comes to preventing wild and grassfires amid the coronavirus pandemic.

  Canada

  Apr 22, 2020
• Lightning causes majority of 21 new forest fires in Ontario, ministry says

  A spokesman for the ministry says the new fires were reported on Friday night and that they were caused by lightning.

  Environment

  Sep 8, 2018
• 2 Ontario provincial parks re-open after forest fires prompt closures

  Two provincial parks in northeastern Ontario have re-opened after forest fires forced them to close last month.

  Canada

  Aug 10, 2018
• California wildfire death toll approaches 40, hundreds still missing

  "It is a horror that no one could have imagined."

  Weather

  Oct 14, 2017
• ‘Get in!’: Dash cam captures officer’s dramatic rescue of stranded truck driver during Kansas wildfire

  Dramatic video shows a Kansas trooper rescuing a stranded truck driver from a wildfire and driving through thick smoke as flames lick the roadside.

  World

  Mar 9, 2017
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• Manitoba emergency communication has failed: premier

  Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the province's emergency mobile communications system has reached the end of its service life and has failed at key times.

  Politics

  Nov 18, 2016
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• 60 years of climate change in southern Alberta tracked by new website

  New website tracks temperature changes across Alberta between 1950 and 2010.

  Weather

  Jan 9, 2016