Fort McMurray wildfire: Alberta explores other escape routes in lessons learned from 2016 scramble

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18 күн бұрын

As wildfire evacuees crowded the roads out of Fort McMurray and travelled down the two highways out of town, the scene brought back memories of a scramble to leave the city in 2016, as an even more ferocious blaze consumed thousands of homes in the northern Alberta city.
Now with a wildfire burning nearby once again, the experience is bringing renewed calls for change - including more routes to escape. Morgan Black explains.
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@Scott_396 16 күн бұрын

Deliberately started....

@danboden9873 16 күн бұрын

Where's the cops to arrest these activists in the woods ?

@WelfareRacing 16 күн бұрын

Arson same as last year, Did we not learn from last year with all the people charged with Arson for some of the biggest wildfires last year

@mariacantore9162 16 күн бұрын

Are these fires deliberately started? Hmmmmm!

@user-eo1vz9lt8g 16 күн бұрын

we need a huge circumference of perhaps gravel all around many towns in the country to act as a fire break, this seems to be the future

@paddysyron 12 күн бұрын

The idea of firebreaks was recommended by Darby Allen former McMurray Fire Chief. He had other logical recommendations like yours but Mayor Melissa Blake and city council decided to ignore them. Thank you for raising this intelligent solution.

@EndofDays-7777 16 күн бұрын

Dubai makes it rain once a week . Think about that .

@marbles5723 16 күн бұрын

And most of Dubai’s population are modern slaves.

@EndofDays-7777 16 күн бұрын

@@marbles5723 Ya ? And how's that different from BC ? 😄

@125alo 16 күн бұрын

Canadians to

@paddysyron 12 күн бұрын

Interesting.

@Angrycomments 16 күн бұрын

This happened in 2016 and those officials literally scrambled and ran for their lives last minute. Almost 10 years later, these officials have learned nothing and are still struggling to evacuate.

@Atheist66644 16 күн бұрын

is it possible that it is all by design

@125alo 16 күн бұрын

Yes.

@EndofDays-7777 16 күн бұрын

Absofrickenlutely

@Atheist66644 16 күн бұрын

@@EndofDays-7777 people are so blind

@Atheist66644 15 күн бұрын

@@johncowper7982 they all belong to the same club that keep you in the dark but what do I know I think the world is flat

@paddysyron 12 күн бұрын

Canadian public sector incompetence is key. Mayor and council ignored Fire Chiefs recommendations in 2017. We could be safe but instead opt for the annual panic and reminders of past nightmares.

@Koolguy1986 16 күн бұрын

Let’s protest wild fires

@greenpilltheory6649 16 күн бұрын

Climate protesters started it.

@Atheist66644 16 күн бұрын

that sounds stupid say protest the staged fires by design remember people are sheep

@Diya6587 16 күн бұрын

Looks like it's 2016 again in Fort McMurray

@winstonsmith935 16 күн бұрын

So still only one route out , no improvements since the last fires.

@larrymunn5279 16 күн бұрын

Yeah, this joint I live in is the same way one way in one way out through the mountains. Place got cut off by fire last year like we all knew was gonna happen and people went into apocalypse shopper mode lol. A year later we have a logging road open now for emergencies.

@tiffanychant4746 15 күн бұрын

I agree another road.

@paddysyron 12 күн бұрын

Are you aware that ALL Darby Allen's recommendations were ignored? A road out does not protect homes. Fitebreaks and steel roofs and siding do.

@osvaldocozar407 16 күн бұрын

Trudeau regalando dinero a otros paises mientra canada 🇨🇦 esta ardiendo 😢😢😢

@125alo 16 күн бұрын

This is a plan.

@dangrather1280 16 күн бұрын

Two seasons of fires starting early right after the carbon tax. Not to mention right in the fossil fuel area. Hmmmmmm……

@reesesabido57 16 күн бұрын

Is wildfires an attack?? Think about concentrated heat waves or beams, like microwaves for example. They need to get a handle on this. I wish our government and all the different departments would focus on something like these strange phenomenons, they'd developed a technology/new weapon and we are oblivious to it.

@gavinlenobel174 16 күн бұрын

They are busy looking for big foot

@shawnawilliams3025 15 күн бұрын

We are in a 5 year drought....

@xodox1271 15 күн бұрын

UPC Jason Kenny decommissioned the rappel program, NDP Rachel Notley cut the fire fighting budget by 15 million. When will the government of Alberta train, organize and make a self sustained solution with forestry to identify and eliminate the fires before they become colossal in size?

@NonDNA-py5gr 16 күн бұрын

Call the feds.

@LoyalLoyalty-uk2wf 16 күн бұрын

If anyone dies in Fort McMurray is going to be his or her own fault. I was there when few years ago the same thing happened and all were forced to evacuate, and I have no clue why in the hell the people went back there to live again, while the place is a very well know fire attracting place. I helped last time and that was it. I am not going to help this people anymore due to their little brain.