"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
05/03/2016 at 21:44 • Filed to: None
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
05/03/2016 at 21:44 • Filed to: None | 1
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The largest wildfire evacuation in Albertas history is underway, 60,000 people are under evacuation order.
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Loads of workers and their families are staying at the work camps in the tar sands north of Fort Mac, and Highway 63 has been closed since the fire crossed it.
We’re no strangers to wildfires in Western Canada, but last years fire season was unprecedentedly long and expensive, and this years is off to an ominous and disastrous start. I don’t believe there have been any reported deaths so far, hopefully it stays that way.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 21:57 |
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i didn’t know you guys got anything but snow. that really sux.
whoarder is tellurium
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 21:58 |
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Stay strong, Alberta.
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> OPPOsaurus WRX
05/03/2016 at 22:00 |
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Everywhere but Vancouver is covered in snow in the winter, and has just bizarre and unpredictable weather when its not snowing, Vancouver has rain 90% of the time but the highest percentage of people complaining about the cold when it’s not even freezing, and most of the west catches fire all summer. It usually misses cities and towns, not this year I guess.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 22:03 |
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Very scary stuff...my heart goes out to my fellow Canadians out there! 80,000 people in the evacuation zone, last I heard...
wafflesnfalafel
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 22:16 |
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the vid on that Edmondton Journal link is crazy, end of the world kinda stuff there...
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> wafflesnfalafel
05/03/2016 at 22:19 |
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Yeah it's rather terrifying
Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 22:48 |
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My goodness. Be safe
Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 23:21 |
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Know lots of people out of there homes and what sucks worse is people at the south end of the city had to go south and people in the north had to go north. Some families separated at this point.
unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
> gmctavish needs more space
05/03/2016 at 23:40 |
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Are you guys still using the CL215s for these fires?
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gmctavish needs more space
> Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
05/03/2016 at 23:51 |
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Yeah :/ Some headed for Edmonton and some for a lodge at the Shell camp I think. Even the evacuation points are being evacuated I think
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> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
05/03/2016 at 23:51 |
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Oh wow, this has to be one of the biggest in Canada, not just Alberta
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> unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
05/03/2016 at 23:55 |
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I’m not sure what Alberta uses actually. I saw some copters on the news clips but I haven’t looked into the equipment yet. BC usually uses a mix of the CL215s, copters, little turboprops with belly tanks, and sometimes we bring out the big guns and let the Martin Mars loose
Rufant
> gmctavish needs more space
05/04/2016 at 03:01 |
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Not good. Here’s hoping all goes well from Adelaide, Australia. We have just had a bad fire season here.