“Investigators should be able to determine this on the ground in the coming days.
For now, what we can say is the widespread wildfire outbreaks in Quebec, in particular, are strange.”
“The Nova Scotia government announced on Saturday that it has started using helicopters and infrared scanners to find hot spots at wildfires in the province. (Weather Network, June 10, 2023)
In smoke-coarsened voices, loud HOORAYS from the advised-to-stay-inside and wearing face masks when outdoors, peanut gallery!
CFP on Sunday, drove through the fire ravaged area of Shelburne County, where it was apparent that the fires had gone underground.
“In a news release, the province said the scanning would be done between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. AT, depending on the weather. It expects the scanning could take up to a week to complete and said this will help ground crews extinguish the fires.(Weather Network)
“The helicopters are from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
The largest wildfire, in Shelburne County, is estimated at 23,525 hectares.
“The provincial government said that about 90 DNR firefighters are battling the blaze, along with 40 firefighters and support staff from the Department of National Defence.”
Meanwhile, it’s going to be a long hot summer not just in places where wildfires are still raging “out of control” but in places whose peoples are still affected by thick, choking, hard-to-breathe smoke.
When it’s all blown over, count on world ‘leaders’, led by Justin Trudeau, blaming wildfires suspected of being deliberately set by radical environmental activists, on a soon inevitable, coming-to-kill-you, man-made Global Warming/Climate Change, along with a whopping bill for his carbon tax.