A fire smoulders underground near Fort Nelson, B.C.
The wildfire season is off to an early start in some parts of Canada — partially due to what are sometimes called "zombie fires" that have carried over from last year. Here's what we know about them.A fire smoulders underground near Fort Nelson, B.C., this past winter. The region is now dealing with a wildfire that started from one of these 'zombie' or holdover fires.
Daniels said some of last year's fires had perimeters that were "very large and convoluted," making tracking them over the winter difficult. One of the clearest examples so far this year is a fire threatening the community of Fort Nelson, in northeastern British Columbia, which had an unusually warm winter and low snowpack.that holdover fires aren't a new problem. But he said last year's record-setting season, coupled with the abnormally dry conditions, have "amplified" the risk stemming from such wildfires.
An added concern is that fires smouldering in the peatlands of Canada's far north release carbon that took hundreds of years to accumulate, Daniels said. (Already this year, an unusually early start in B.C. resulted in record-setting
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