Wildland-urban interface
I just saw this expression in the disaster that has overtaken Fort Mac. This is the first city I've have ever seen burn down, I guess slave lake would count too.
It also is apparent that we have no effective way of fighting this monster.
What other cities in Alberta are vulnerable to this sort of thing? I have always heard that if a wild fire ever came down the Bow Valley there would be a number of cities and towns at risk.
What does the science say that can be done to either prevent this or to make it so it doesn't get so big?
Where I live in Central Alberta, it is very dry but there aren't many trees, and the crops are gone so there isn't much fuel, but at a different time of year there sure could be.
My deepest sympathies to the people of Fort Mac, at least there has been no lose of life.
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