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Canada recently had a "controlled burn" that was made by an international association. They weren't trained on Canadian forests properly, now it's a huge wildfire.



Which was this? The Banff one [may 4] doesn't seem related to this, and if anything seems to defend the practice by example - 31 hectares burned, 28 of which were planned, and only three horse stables were damaged despite weather changing suddenly and spreading the fire.


If you think 24,000 people evacuated and 3 extra hectares burned in an populated area isn't a failure, I don't know what to tell you.

It also caused other fires in the area, which weren't announced since it would make them look bad.

If you look at the wildfire map, it doesn't seem to be noted: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/3ffcc2d0ef3e4e0999b0c...

AB governance is terrible right now.




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