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This week's e-news is focused on wildfires as part of Fire Fighting in Canada's Wildfire Week sponsored by Waterax. We've curated great content to help you stay up-to-date and informed as we head into what's potentially another wild wildfire season.
- Laura Aiken, Editor, Fire Fighting in Canada
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Last year's record wildfires in Alberta destroyed habitat for threatened species and will change the makeup of the province's forests for decades to come, says a new report. And the assessment from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute — a body funded by the University of Alberta and a provincial research agency — says the chance of a repeat of 2023's massive burn poses an ongoing challenge for both conservation and industry.
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A global forest study says Canadian wildfires last year were “entirely” to blame for a worldwide surge in tree losses. The study released by researchers at the University of Maryland on the Global Forest Watch website says tree cover loss in 2023 reached 28.3 million hectares globally, a 24 per cent jump driven by Canada’s loss of 8.6 million hectares last year.
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British Columbia’s premier says a training and education centre for wildfire fighters will be established in response to recommendations by a task force that looked into last year’s catastrophic wildfires. David Eby says the centre at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops will be the first of its kind in North America, offering everything from basic wildfire training to post-doctoral research.
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People in southern Ontario should start preparing now for the potential of smoke hanging over this part of the province during the upcoming wildfire season, one researcher says. The Weather Network reports.
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The numbers behind the worst wildfire season on record...
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Change is all around, but the guiding principles of leadership remain the same...
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Firefighters from across North America gathered last week in the Northern Alberta city of Grande Prairie for a comprehensive, four-day training session on combatting wildfires as its impacts on at-risk communities continue to evolve...
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When a group of fire fighting students at Lakeland College’s Emergency Training Centre (ETC) heard they were being asked to deploy to Parkland County, Alta., to help fight a recently ignited wildfire, they were ecstatic. Getting to learn how to be a firefighter in a real-life scenario outside the classroom was a dream come true...
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Firefighting strategies used in the wildland and WUI environment are much different than those used in structural firefighting and require unique knowledge and skills. This new series from Action Training Systems presents important information for the structural firefighter who may be called upon to provide support or respond to wildland or wildland-urban interface fire in their jurisdiction.
This series can assist fire service agencies and members with meeting the training requirements of NFPA 1051 and 1143.
» Learn more about this set
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| FIRE FIGHTING IN CANADA: THE PODCAST |
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Ret. Fire Chief Arjuna George has stayed connected to the fire service as a columnist (From Hire to Retire, Canadian Firefighter), podcast host (Beneath the Helmet), and author (Burnt Around the Edges, with more books to come). Arjuna shares how burnout pushed him into early retirement, why he wrote a book on it, and how a “world café” can contribute to better mental health.
» Listen now...
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