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2023 Canadian wildfires. Beginning in March 2023, and with increased intensity starting in June, Canada was affected by a record-setting series of wildfires. All 13 provinces and territories were affected, with large fires in Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
The landfill caught fire in 2012. [5] In 2013, the City of Winnipeg began capturing methane from the landfill originally using 42 gas well, [2] expanding to 63 in 2017. [6] One of the pipes broke in June 2018, preventing the flaring of the gas captured from three of the wells.
Philip Kives (12 February 1929 – 27 April 2016) was a Canadian business executive, entrepreneur, and marketing expert from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is best known for founding K-tel, which sold household gadgets including the Miracle Brush, Feather Touch Knife, Veg-O-Matics, as well as many compilation record albums. [ 1]
The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1][ 2] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire ...
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July 19, 2024 at 7:59 PM. LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - Crews have contained a massive fire that spread across parts of the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Valley. The "Fork Fire" broke ...
Show comments. Aug. 19—Police are investigating a suspected arson after a brush fire Monday afternoon burned up a steep hillside and came dangerously close to the Ridge Condominiums in Browne's ...
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte: Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]