What's behind Nova Scotia's wildfires? | About That
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Two wildfires covering more than 7,000 hectares of land have forced more than 15,000 people from their homes in Nova Scotia. Andrew Chang talks to Environment Canada's David Phillips about how the fires got out of control so quickly, and how this could be just the beginning of a challenging season.
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As a nova scotian who is affected by these fires, these fires have been set by a careless person who had a backyard fire during 30km winds with 50km gusts, there was a fire ban when he decided to have his Saturday afternoon burn, and fiona did not hit the areas where these fires are, please get your geography straight, yes there are trees down, but fiona affected the north shore much more than Shelbourne or Tantallon, the biggest problem is the total disregard for the burning ban that was in place, when people have fires durring bans, there are no consequences because we dont have enough resources to enforce the law, until something drastic happens like this current situation, and now coupled with a few days of wind, and the fact that we love to build our houses and Subdivisions in the natural environment keeping the old growth between the houses, and the areas affected have no fire hydrants in the communities, the majority are on well and septic, so when fires happen we rely on the tankers to soak it down and once the tankers run dry they need to fill again, most people don't know that alot of these communities have no fire hydrants. Maby we should be investing in proper water distribution for communities instead of electric busses or maby a water bomber since we have had to rely on Newfoundland for their 2. Please pray for us, it has been a horrific ordeal, I currently am on a 30 min evacuation alert told have our essentials and pets ready to leave, in a 30 min time window, we have been sleeping in our full set of clothing for the past 3 nights, waking up at the sound of every emergency alarms alert on our phones just waiting to leave our house behind, so please stop using this tragedy to push the climate change agenda, yes absolutely climate change is real, but these fires were careless humans who clearly have no regard for their actions 😢
If that careless persons house burnt, the insurance company should refuse his coverage!
@@doltonmurray1625 thar isn't any consolation to the 200 home owner who lost not onky their homes but everything else they own and in some cases their pets.
Humans ruins everything for temporary satisfaction
I totally agree with you. This has nothing to do with climate change …it has everything to do with irresponsible people. The same is happening here in Alberta. My prayers are with all of you affected by this horrific fire. Please be safe everyone. 🙏🙏🙏
surely you didn`t expect a balanced, professional report from trudeau`s woke state-run propaganda mouthpiece cbc, did you?
Trees do not spontaneously combust. The vast majority of fires are caused by humans either accidentally or intentionally.
It was caused by humans, yep.
The one in Tantallon was caused by a dumbass burning bushes.
Exaggeration. While yes some fires are caused by humans, it's not even close to the "vast majority". Around 50-60% of all forest fires are caused by lightning strikes and other natural causes.
Yes but let's blame climate change instead of the arsonists that have gone unpunished in Canada since the BLM burnings.
Did you bother to actually listen? He never said anything about spontaneous activity, he is stating that the conditions make it easier for activity by humans or lightning storms to start. It's the same thing as starting a campfire. If your kindling is dry it will be far easier to get that fire going than if it were green and containing moisture.
@@Th0rvidTheViking Well said.
@jgriffin282 should listen again with his/her brain switched on.
Reductionist climate change denier crap does nothing but broadcast the inability to understand the multiple and complex issues which are clearly explained in this video.
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The problems are the following 1) the rapid response heli tack DNR crew was disbanded around 2014. Their capabilities routinely kept fires small ,holding fire lines until ground crews could arrive 2) The large Bell 212 helicopter was sold , tbe only one capable of handling a helitack crew and having maximum water dropping capabilities 3) the fire tower system was disbanded and the towers removed 4)the fire permit system requiring a personal visit to a DNR office was removed 5) the fuel load from last years hurricane is at a level never before seen. 6) the province does not promote winter burning of brush 7) radical environmentalist climate activists have a penchant to commit arson to push a narrative. Alberta RCMP recently charged one women with 32 counts of forest fire related arson in 2021 and other charges this year. What started the big Fort Mac fire ? What started all the fires in NS?
My guess would be 7 as origin. You outlined this well.
thumbs up ..
Ever since WT7 came down free falling and no plane wreckage found at the Pentagon or Shanksville PA, and we are told there wasn’t any to be found as they vaporized upon impact ….really? and we were suppose to accept that? … And we are to Trust media or government narratives? Hmmmmmm
I’ll choose number 7.
@@StirlingLighthouse smart cat 🐭
How did most of the fires start? By people. But let's talk about everything else besides that.
Man's red flower.
I find it very disturbing that weather manipulation is not talked about. Or how about those planes spraying pesticides and more? This is all manmade.
Your IQ is 23
It's not warmer.
We would swim in May 50 years ago now it's late June because the lakes are too cold.
Kids burning tires in the woods. I seriously hope they face HARD consequences.
The same fire was seen last week in alberta . Edmonton. Ect.
There’s a nation wide warrant out for its arrest, it’s considered unpredictably volatile.
When we get hurricanes the fallen trees don't get clean up in the forest!On top of that the ground is use to having lots of snow in the winter but lately we've barely had snow the last couple winters!
Dry? No,,,, it’s just the beginning of June
Kids burning tires have started 100+ separate location fires? Not sure how fires start so early in damp cold season with ground still being damp and wet...something seems odd here.
Yes.
I live about 30 minutes outside of Boston. When I got up this morning the sky was hazy and I could smell smoke.
south Rhode Island..... Here too....
Imagine how bad it is within the HRM.
I feel like a smoker just walking around the HRM
@@dumbviewer I live downtown Halifax and I cannot smell any smoke whatsoever. I could see huge plumes in the distance on Sunday but have not smelled a whiff of smoke yet thankfully.
@@Nakia11798 Can't smell any smoke in downtown Halifax.
The WEF.
Is it geoengineering? Apparently its been going on in Alberta and there are plenty if wildfires over here too.
I'm trying not conspire a theory just yet, but as of now, I can't seem to find footage of a fire so enormous that it yellowed the sky/blocked the sun/and effected my breathing here in NY, 8 hours away from the canadian border. Not to mention the Adirondacks in between us should have purified at least a decent portion of the smoke. We shall see.
@@christmasanimals7119 it is pretty obvious what is happening
NONE of the forests have been cleared since Fiona we are in South Western NS :( scary stuff :(
Tinder Box
Agreed. And yet they blame it on "climate change". Such BS
Hope you stay safe
Fiona? Try Juan. Try ever. HRM is about 30% deadfall, look from satellite views.
😭🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 please ray for rains allover our beautiful beautiful land, where fires are destroying so much.
So, 100+ fires just start?
No one sees the strangeness of that?
I do.
And in a straight line
Poor animals 😢
Those dash cam videos are just like Fort McMurray. 😱
At 1pm in NYC I had to turn the lights on in a room that usually gets lots of sunlight. It was a dark yellowish orange outside. It's a bit better now as a yellowish haze.
i live here in canada and the fire is getting closer to us we might have to evacuate soon, im very worried that my home town will go to flames.
Climate has been changing for 14,000
Probably been changing since day 1.
Check it out Mount Saint Helens in one eruption ,, did more damage than all of human history.. and that's a fact boys,, the government just wants to make money off of us by blaming us for its Happing....
Yeah, we should put a ban on volcano eruptions. While we're at it, ban anything that can make or start a fire, like lighters, matches, flint and steel, etc.
Forest fires are a natural occurance, but since they cause so much disruption to homes and health, we fight them. Controlled burns are needed in future. California's wildfires are often due to this same phenomenon.
So, humans releasing 34 billion tons of Co2 into the atmosphere every year, capturing solar radiation and warming the planet has nothing to do with it?
Not denying climate change is happening, but it's such a cop out answer. People would rather pin their hopes on the lofty goal of "reversing climate change" instead of ACTUAL practical & realistic solutions to adapt to these conditions. It took us a couple hundred years to reach this point, and it's certainly going to take nearly as long to reverse if it's even possible. In the mean time, we should be adapting to these conditions because they're here to stay for the foreseeable future.
How do you adapt to 100% humidity and 130 degrees temperature? You can't. The body cooks from inside out and air conditioners stop working. You just can't.
That is where we are headed. Acceptance is the only thing left to do - acceptance and honest acknowledgment of all the human sicknesses that have led us here, primarily the erroneous and diseased ways we view ourselves and our place on this planet. That is the only thing left to do when in hospice.
without all this "they" wouldn't be able to push it so hard.....
it's because of the blowdown from all the hurricanes, left to dry out and become tinder dry. Perfect storm, dry winter, spring and no effort to clean up the hurricane damage..... I live in Hants Co.
"Is it climate change, is it really that simple?"
Absolutely not. Only someone who is simple would label it simply climate change. Climate changes. Always has. At what point was it the perfect climate?
Don't you see your environment changing because of climate change?
I've seen Crown corporations flood vast stretches of fertile land for hydroelectric projects. Watched the federal government hand over the rights to our raw resources to foreign governments. Watching as we are told it would be better to junk all fossil fuel burning vehicles and replace them with electric vehicles. Each electric vehicle requiring more precious earth minerals to produce and creating many more mining projects to supply it. I've seen decades of fire suppression alongside monoculture coniferous tree plantations burning up because of shortsighted governments and corporations that clear cut any biodiversity and create conditions that led to unhealthy forests and larger fires. I've been to communities that were poorly planned and built in drained wetlands, flood plains and diverted rivers. I watched them get flooded. I've driven on roads that have active avalanches in the winter and mudslides in the spring because it was the most convenient route or the only route. As for the climate, it has and will always change. We are still technically in an ice age (Greenland/Antarctica). We are just starting to warm back up. It takes just one large volcanic eruption to throw us back into another ice age. What actually makes a climate for us? The tilt of the Earth and the Sun? A functioning magnetosphere? The poles? More government?
Arizona has 120 degree days with a dry heat all the time and they dont have fires magically starting. Something fishy is going on here, Idk what but something smells smelly about this situation
I'm with you. I've been pondering this all day. Today felt exactly the same as the day they told me corona was a big scary deal and I just instinctively knew something was fishy about it. The story didn't feel right. And neither does this one. We shall see.
When fires across thousands of miles start simultaneously with no clouds in the sky.....I would call that warfare.
The dork with the glasses shows we've nearly arrived at Hunger Games
Same reason there’s fires in Alberta.
Not gonna say it… y’all know!
come what is it?
@@RB-kr6jo gods wrath
Ironic how all these "wildfires" started at the same time...
Don't fire's need a Combustion source?
I moved to Canada because I thought it would fare better as AGW started kicking in...
Whoops.
The whole planet is going toast you're going to have to move to Mars 💀
I can’t help noticing that thousands of people are losing their homes and nothing, absolutely nothing is said afterwards. I have questions, did insurance pay out? Where are they living now? Are they in tents? Where are they? How are they coping? How is nothing said about this absolutely nothing. Their lives are completely devastated….
These wildfires where you have to flee for your lives and it catches up to you as you drive down the road are something I never, ever, expected to happen in Nova Scotia. Siberia, yes, California, yes, because I've seen videos shot from fleeing people's cars!
What started the fire
Tell the real story it does not help when people start the fire
Maybe starting underground volcanoes earthquakes etc
Man's mismanagement of our earth is evident as well
We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world was turning 😢
An atv mechanical issue caused it to catch and the wind took it to the trees...it's been dry
What a way to prop up the climate cult
Im so sorry.😢😢😢😢😢😢
Canada and The USA must learn from Australia regarding how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People uses fire in the cooler autumn months to conduct hazard reduction burns as a land management method to reduce fuels that causes major bush fire; along with owning a copy and reading the book Fire Country by Victor Steffensen from cover to cover multiple times.
2 things...
1.. Started by arson
2. Nova Scotia is all birch trees
Shelburn fire is now 19,000 HC and Halifax is 788HC plus another fire broke out in Bedford ns behind an ammonia plant.
Yep, if the Bedford and Tantallon fires touch, all hell will break loose
A fire "broke out" .. fires arent alive thing..someone clearly started that one.
Glimpses of hell.
Shelburne is currently 20,000 hectares . We need reinforcements !!!
I noticed that they say there's more fires than ever. Were there this many fires 1,000 years ago?? Can we go back that far to see if there's a pattern?
These fires weren't started by innocent civilians and if you believe that you're blind. Over 80 wild fires in alberta alone, these are being caused by governments.
We have campfire bans for a reason, and have dry seasons and forest fire risk meters... "innocent civilians" sometimes make mistakes, and an improperly drowned campfire can spark a larger fire. The drier and hotter it is outside, the easier for fire to spread. Lightening, electrical fires, these all happen too.
No rain
Maybe Texas has more humidity but still we get temperatures in the 100s and we don't always get a good rainy spring and yet we hardly get any wild fires over here I don't get how those pretty green pine trees can just self combust just because they didn't get enough rain and yet they don't even get as hot as Texas does even new Mexico and Arizona doesn't get as many fires as California and yet they are really hot and dry now they have more sandy deserts but still how can Canada get this big of a fire I feel like something is suspicious about this fire and how did they let it get this out of hand This is bad
Someone is starting these fires.
Wood combusts at 450 or something?
It ain't that hot outside.
I fought forest fires a few years trees do not combust period
I was reading something said that if the wood was 480 fahrenheit that a single spark will ignite it. At 930 fahrenheit it will ignite itself. Either way, those fires were started.
It's not about trees combusting on their own, it's that the current drier climate makes fires caused by other things MUCH worse. This is why we have had campfire bans for a long time, humans do cause fires, no one is denying that. Our current weather just makes it easier for these fires to grow and spread, not combust trees like a cartoon. No one with a basic level of critical thinking would claim that.
@micalyptus Your right and no one was.
Thanks for helping me understand. Many people do not realize in the interior of BC, around Kamloops, April is often our driest month. So I can see what is happening in Nova Scotia.
Government
@@donkeydik2602 So it's the governments fault? What were they supposed to do, make it rain? And if they'd done one of the few things they could've, like keep people out of the woods you'd be blaming them for that. As the premiere has indicated human action whether due to ignorance or stupidity is likely the cause. Your comments prove there's way too much of the later.
@@teddyrasputin3850 no I think the fires were made by the government so to prove “climate change is real and an urgent matter”
@@donkeydik2602 and risk people's lives? This conspiracy is wild..
@@Jay-uj2er it’s always some random guy
Strange how the guy who crashed into the barriers at the Whitehouse with the UHaul bus had a burning ship on the side with Nova Scotia on top of it and the found a Swasticka flag inside almost as if they were telling who and where they were going to cause something to happen before it happened
Wow I didn't hear that story yet. Interesting.
We never pick up trees after a hurricane. The forest has been dry for years. Hardly any snowfall or rain makes a forest dry. It is what it is. We will survive.
That's a brave stance
Please pray for rain allover our beautiful country.😭🙏🙏🙏
@@thermn8r No, not brave, just not panicked.
@@oceanchicns not panicked is good, actually. Hope you're alright 🙏
@Thomas Shields last night was sketchy but I am ready to flee if needed. Stay safe, wherever you are.
Proper forest management prevents unstoppable fires. California neglects their forests also.
Thank you to all firefighters! PRAYERS UP FOR ALL EFFECTED!!!!!!!
When is anyone going to arrest the activists putting our forests on fire to force their farcical narrative??
wtaf are you talking about
@@RB-kr6jo Forest fires started on purpose, it's a fact, as a matter of fact the Nova Scotia Government just passed a bill where people will be fined 25k for doing exactly that. Global warming is a hoax, and the people pushing the narrative are going to great lengths to try and push it down everybody's throat.
Why did you stop controlled burns?!
ngl, I got jump scared by that car when it suddenly appeared. 😨
How many of these fires are man made?
I do believe Alouishous Ohare is behind this oxygen sucking mystery.
I am not familiar with that landmarks. Looks like it is all under monoculture... If then that policy must change . When the season makes the leaves and shrubs dry you need to create proper "fire line" to avoid the fire from spreading uncontrollably... Don't keep blaming nature; there is hardly any reason for the fire to occur naturally, the fire must be human created... Ban any camping or fishing activity by people in that forests during dry season...
This is what happens when provincially and federally they’ve been chipping away at the forestry budget. They don’t do control burns as much as they use to if ever, and there’s no clearing out of deadwood. Our forests here are tinder boxes. There were plenty of downed trees before Fiona.
I agree we also have lots of tree disease that is coming from you know where.
Or maybe those Chinese balloons dropped incendiaries...
I'm shocked it took him 5 minutes to mention climate change.
Pulp Mill closure leaves tons of small trees in the woods. If one selectively harvests large trees the rest will soon blow down.
Forest management needs to get on top of this before it happens again.
Time for recruitment drive.
Of course it has nothing to do with spraying of chemicals such as aluminum (highly volatile) into the upper atmosphere to disperse on these lands...hmmm
Thanks for the report.
Shelburne is over 20 000 hectars now
How about invest in some water tankers
Empress Justine Trudeau is curiously silent.....
You guys are going to have to check into your science a little more than that,, we have a bunch of volcanoes going off around the globe at the moments, that's what's changing our atmosphere ,, not humanity,,,
you do know... that things can have many causes... and comorbidities...... right?
Sure didn't help that some were started intentionally
Deserts will follow
Heat.
It's too late, but the let it burn prevents these big fires.
I hate to say this because everyone loves their ATVs but they are causing so many problems in the forest. Maybe ATV use should be restricted or banned over the dry months. Or the companies that build them need to make them safer. BC has had several ATV spark fires over the past few yrs.
Perhaps too much tech is a factor? Anyone with me on this?
Where are we on prescribed burns?
Fires were started on purpose.
Where is the silver lining??? Are you kidding me !!! Wake up .
Ash is very good fertilizer. Look it up.
This year its a dry year and not enough humidity that causes the wild fires and next year its the flooding and excess water dumps. Its called weather
We been having it
Oh and expect a story about large hail in the near future
No one talks about the addition of chemicals dropped from the planes and what effects they add to the situation...
they can make it rain and they make rain stop with geoengineering....
Nova Scotia rocks.
Didnt start on own
Tell me they figured out how to engineer wildfires using satellites
That's ancient technology.
God Awful
Imagine if he ran into the back of that car and car is now disabled😳😳😳
Poor forestry management and arson
There ya go, no need for the CBC
People need to remove the dead trees and rake up the forest.
I guess the ray of hope is eventually we will have no tress left to burn. So there’s that.
You might be surprised to learn that trees grow. And tree food in co2! You’ll be fine sweetheart.
@@Buckshot99 Trees can only absorb so much CO2. They need water and stable weather patterns - which climate change is disrupting. Time to accept science and evidence "sweetheart".
@Ethan Beaver there was a fire nearly here a month ago. The grass was all gone it looks bad, but now it's the greenest part around.
@@Buckshot99 Yeah, let's live in denial - well done you.👏
Which will of course contribute to global warming. And less wood to rebuild the burnt structures!
I swear to christ, if this all started because some chucklenuts did a gender reveal party with explosives again, I'm gonna commit an act of violence.
No swearing please. The holy name of our Lord is not to be misused, nor used in moments of extreme anger. Please. Read the scriptures.
Worse, it was some scrub burning garbage in her backyard
@@heidimisfeldt5685 Heidi, if God has time to get angry over someone swearing, then he should maybe shift his focus to all those children getting bombed into paste in Yemen.
@@heidimisfeldt5685 Jesus Christ holy Saint Mari Joseph of the holy ghost 👻. Bélonos love you.
@MrCrazyLeprechaun you sir, are a 🤴 king
The average height of trees is getting too low.
its painful to listen
I am so sorry for what happened to those areas now is for some time , sorry for ..some people do not pay attention to others and do some acts THAT can Live without for betterment’s of others 😢 But in the other way I am so thankful and happy for Canada and the responsible Government will act Soon to make what is necessary , Thank them and God for that🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🤔🤔🤔
responsible Government or government Responsible for the destruction?
All the domestic ,farm Animals and wild animals left to burn .😭
arson?
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancin' in the dark😀
We didn't start the fire.
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
Not buying at all.. at all!! #common
People start the vast majority of them. Ask them why
Because they keep using explosives for gender reveal parties.
80 percent!
Leftists
Stupidity. Thinking a bonfire during dry weather, or burning bushes is a great idea.
Keep on burning that oil!
A lot of bla bla bla,,,, something else going on🤔
Meyb the clumate is chenging...