As the rampaging wildland fires hit modern communities, the interior of stick-constructed homes, chock-full of synthetic ...
Through the telling of the Fort McMurray fire in northern Alberta ... Shakespearean in complexity, this is the mask of death and destruction now upon us all. Now imagine this mask on the faces ...
The scale of the destruction and the ferocity of the ... John Vaillant, the American-Canadian writer whose book about the 2016 Fort McMurray fire helped popularise the concept of fire weather ...
To see destruction on this level and impacts on actual people, I guess it’s shocking, not surprising…When you look at the trend of fire on planet Earth ... as we saw in Los Angeles and as we saw in ...
The threat of destruction posed by wildfires is global. In California, wildfires have destroyed over 12,000 homes. Similarly, in Canada’s 2016 Fort McMurray fire, more than 2,400 homes and vast ...
According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), "last summer [2024] was the most expensive on record in Canada for catastrophic weather events, with 228,000 insurance claims and over $8 billion in ...
The fire ripped into Fort McMurray with such ferocity and speed that residents ... It is hard to get a sense of the scale of the destruction unless you visit, as I did in 2019, the Alberta tar sands.
author of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, which tells the story of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire that tore through the bitumen mining area in Alberta, Canada. “That is a ...
The fire ripped into Fort McMurray with such ferocity and speed that residents ... It is hard to get a sense of the scale of the destruction unless you visit, as I did in 2019, the Alberta tar sands.