Climate Change Brings Revamped Wildfire Suppression Tactics

Because our forests are so thick and inaccessible from the ground, the province relies on aerial firefighting to keep fires from growing into huge monsters that consume everything in their path and that job of conducting aerial attacks has become more challenging in recent years due to hotter weather, lower humidity, longer and smokier fire seasons and an ever-present amount of fuel to feed fires.

Michael Benson knows as well as anyone in the province what it’s like to stare into the mouth of a fiery forest beast and turn on the extinguisher.

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