From hoses and shovels to water bombers: How wildfires are being fought across Canada
— which is placed around the fire’s edge — and preventive burning to strip an area of vegetation that acts as fuel, he said.
With resources in short supply, “our goal isn’t necessarily to go until the fire is extinguished, but to contain and hopefully control it to be able to go take care of another fire.” The biggest challenge in the current situation, he said, is that fires are happening simultaneously in several provinces at once, straining resources that are usually shared between provinces and forcing agencies to look abroad for reinforcements.
The experts agree that when a fire is advancing, workers may have to fall back and focus on building defences to protect homes, businesses and critical infrastructure, such as communications towers. That can be done by using a bulldozer to raze a section of land and create a firebreak near the structures, or through a preventive burn of the vegetation.
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