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So...Uhm, Canada sorta lost an entire town to a fire recently......

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    So...Uhm, Canada sorta lost an entire town to a fire recently......

    Last week, under record high temperatures of around 121F/50C, the entire BC town of Lytton (pop. one thousand or so) burned to the ground in about ten or fifteen minutes. This was the result of just one of many wildfires triggered by the heat dome/heatwave in the region o_O

    https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/10126...d-a-small-town
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    When the elements move, you don't even have time to say your prayers (not that they'll help anyway, where the elements are concerned).
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      The heat dome might have spurred it along but its origins might not have been the elements ...

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...used-1.6089991
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        That just makes it so much worse o_O

        Thank you for the update, tho. I had neglected to dig one up, myself >_<
        "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
        "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
        "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
        "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
        "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
        "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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          Forest fires through the interior of BC are par for the course and have been for years, sadly. But they are getting so much worse as the years go by. My parents used to live between Kelowna and Penticton for years, and I was petrified of them getting caught up in a fire.

          Entirely too many of the fires are caused by people from the coast who haven't the foggiest idea that having an uncontained fire is the height of stupidity. The people that live in those areas yearly have much better fire safety habits and actually pay attention to the fire restrictions that go up every year. There was one year when our family summer property went up in flames after one of my uncle's visitors thought it would be a grand idea to pour gasoline on to a pile of wood before tossing a match into it...the whole valley burned, untold loss of wildlife, and those visitors only survived because they made it into the deepest part of the creek at the bottom of the valley.

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