I hope as a country we’re better prepared next year than we were this year passed with record Canadian wildfires. Based on weather patterns (e.g., mild winter, many fires still blazing), I think we’ll have just as bad of a year of forest fires this summer unfortunately. I think we need to a culture change to act as if we’re in drought conditions going forward. There needs to be more public education about fire safety, there might be a way to improve reporting (like a hotline the person in this news story could have called if/when they realized things were out of control), and I think we need a lot more actual firefighting assets. I think it might make sense to proactively re-allocate military resources to forest firefighting, perhaps as a pilot project this spring

Dang. The fire got close to my family’s homes. 22 y/o probably won’t get max sentence but this will probably mess up his career aspects.