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Canada Wildfires

Wildfire Alert As Temperatures Climb

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.06.2013 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - With record temperatures in the forecast and tinder-dry brush and grass in many areas, Alberta's wildfire crews are on high alert.Despite a...

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Alberta Bracing For Early Wildfire Season

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - Alberta is bracing for another early forest-fire season by readying crews in advance.Like last year, wildfire crews will be on duty startin...

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Proposals To Protect Wildfire-Prone Areas Snuffed Out

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.31.2013 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - A federal commission has rejected proposals to change Canada's national construction codes to better protect communities from destructive w...

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Arson Behind Slave Lake Disaster

CP | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada
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EDMONTON - Dwayne Verschoor can't imagine why someone would have wanted to spark a forest fire that nearly wiped out his small Alberta town. But th...

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Manitoba Wildfire Ravages 19,000 Hectares

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.08.2011 | Canada
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SANDILANDS, Man. - Dry conditions are contributing to the spread of a fire in southeast Manitoba that blackened almost 200 square kilometres and was p...

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Forest Fires Rage In Northern Ontario

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.16.2011 | Canada
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THE CANADIAN PRESS -- Soaring temperatures and tinder dry conditions are fuelling dozens of forest fires in Northern Ontario. The Ministry of Natur...

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Crew Works To Protect Arizona Communities From Wildfires

AP | Posted 08.04.2011 | Canada
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Crews on Saturday worked to protect several small Arizona communities from two large wildfires by clearing away brush near homes and...

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Human Activity Cause Of Saskatchewan Fire: Officials

Posted 08.03.2011 | Canada
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CBC Saskatchewan fire officials say human activity, not lightning strikes, are believed to be the cause of a massive forest fire in the north that led...

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