After the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, officials are ready to rebuild. But defending against future fires requires thinking about more than buildings.
This month, Oregon announced that homeowners in high-risk wildfire areas of the state are required to reduce vegetation on their properties and adhere to new building codes. Meanwhile, Canada, which has experienced an increase in devastating fires in recent years, relies on patchwork, mostly voluntary, measures to reduce fire risk. Some think it’s time for the rules to change.
Bad-faith provocateurs have been blaming everything from DEI to local Democrat politicians for the horrendous consequences of Los Angeles's latest major fire. But the insurance companies will get the last word here — and it's high time we started listening to what they're saying.
Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says in a social media post that 60 firefighters from the two provinces will be deployed as soon as Monday, and that Canadian officials are working to identify and prepare more resources to send in the days ahead.
The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have killed at least 10 people and burned more than 10,000 homes and other structures, officials said as they urged more people to heed evacuation orders after a new blaze ignited and quickly grew.
The idea to create a documentary about wildfire came to Ami and Ripper in late 2018 after wildfires in Williams Lake. B.C. sent smoke all the way to Vancouver. While these wildfires were a big deal at the time, they just foreshadowed more extreme fires that followed.
In a study from earlier this year, researchers found that areas around beaver habitat were significantly less impacted by wildfires. Now, the same pattern has been found in Canada.
An analysis released Wednesday by the Senate Committee on the Budget found that the rate at which insurance contracts are being dropped rose significantly in recent years, particularly in states most exposed to climate risks. In all, 1.9 million policies were not renewed.
Canada will fail to protect its most vulnerable communities and fail to fully reap the rewards of playing an integral role in the transition to renewable energy that is sweeping the globe, unless we move much faster.