Sunday, August 5, 2018

British Columbia Is Burning

Good investigative reporting about forest fires, their increasing severity, and how we've ironically increased their severity by suppressing them for years.

"Cold trailing is when firefighters form a line and walk the area, feeling with their hands for heat coming up out of the ground and looking for signs of continued burning that could be underground."

http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/146840/Fires-100-contained

"Cold Trailing: A method of controlling a partly dead fire edge by carefully inspecting and feeling with the hand for heat to detect any fire, digging out every live spot, and trenching any live edge."
https://www.fs.fed.us/nwacfire/home/terminology.html


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