Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now.
More than 12.5 million hectares of bushland have burned in Australia since October and prime forest-fire season is just now getting underway.
"What's happening in Australia now is extraordinary," said Ed Struzik, a fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University."We're as vulnerable as any country in the world," he said. The Fort McMurray, Alta., fire in 2016, burned 590,000 hectares, destroyed 2,400 homes and buildings and forced the entire city of more than 80,000 people to evacuate.
"We're seeing things that we just haven't really seen before," he said. "So the signals are there. Very strong signals that we're going to see things get a lot worse before they get better." He said for every degree of warming, the number of lightning strikes goes up by about 12 per cent. Lightning usually causes more than half of the wildfires in Canada.
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