Alberta 🥵🔥 Flashcards

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Spatial + Temporal setting

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  • Spread 540,000 hectares before control on 5th July
  • Final size up to 4,200,000 acres
  • 10% of city = destroyed
  • Local state of emergency: May 1st 9:57pm
  • First spotted 15km from Fort McMurray
  • May 4th- large enough to make a firestorm
  • August 2nd 2017- extinguished
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Perceptions of the wildfire

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  • May 2nd + 3rd, people went to school

- 21.6% before the fire thought it had x threat to family

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Causes of wildfire

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  • No evidence of natural cause - lightning strikes
  • “Perfect storm” of conditions, e.g. 32.8•C, 72km/hr winds, El Niño 2016
  • $15mill fire protection budget cut month before.
  • Reduction of patchwork forests over time.
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Impacts of the wildfire

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  • $3.6 billion in damages, 88,000 evacu.
  • 2,400 homes destroyed
  • Production of 1 mill oil barrels/day halted (1/4 of Canada’s oil production)
  • Mass job loss + unemployment
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Response to the wildfire?

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  • ‘Fort McMurry Strong’ signs
  • Wood Buffalo Report, recommendations given on how to respond, e.g pet rescue
  • Some communities 1yr later being rebuilt
  • Prime Minister turned down aid from Australia, Israel, Mexico + Russia
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