wildfire

In the B.C. Interior, most of the 54 First Nations still don’t have anyone in the emergency co-ordinator position.

British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C.

The Calgary-based pipeline operator confirmed the rupture in a statement late Tuesday afternoon. 

Federal officials are sounding the alarm on drought conditions and higher-than-normal temperatures indicating another record-breaking wildfire season.

Jason Brolund, the fire chief in West Kelowna, B.C., says he's seen thick smoke turn day to night in his years as a firefighter, but the opposite happened when a fast-moving blaze tore through his community one night last August.

A Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died on Tuesday while fighting a house fire, authorities said.

Health care and education came out ahead on Thursday in a generally restrained Alberta provincial budget forecasting a paper-thin surplus that could easily go up in smoke.

B.C.'s snowpack is 40 per cent below normal spurring action by watershed groups to buffer the rising risk of another extensive summer drought.

Last Generation Canada is aligning with an international climate movement network called A22 as it prepares for a new wave of direct action and demands in the nation’s capital.

The stress and trauma of losing a loved one, seeing a home destroyed or watching a beloved community splinter have resounding mental health repercussions that stretch on for months, even years after the disaster makes its first impact. 

Now, two and a half years later,as Chief (Kukpi7) of Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw First Nation, Tomma is leading his community through a difficult journey of recovery from the worst wildfire disaster in band history.

How the First Nations Emergency Services Society is changing the game in emergency management.

The story of wildfire, and the communities ravaged by them, is also about the long and spiralling story of recovery.

Ottawa continues to underinvest in disaster preparedness and mitigation on First Nations despite ballooning recovery costs from the worst wildfire season on record, according to documents shared with Canada’s National Observer.

As the ash settles on Canada’s record wildfire season, “business as usual from the federal government is not going to cut it,” NDP MP Niki Ashton told Canada’s National Observer.