Certain globalist puppets are deliberately setting some of these fires. Do you recall when 10 simultaneous fires occurred across Alberta a few years ago.. the Fire Chief stated something was peculiar about this coincidence and suspected arson. Who is investigating the who and why? Are these the same people who would likely poison drinking water; sounds like a conspiracy theory, but the worrisome thing is that many of these odd-ball theories are proven to be true. I'm certain there are those out there who have proof.

Birds can safely perch on a power line - so long as no other parts touch other objects. Electricity needs a complete circuit to make a bird explode - meaning one part of a bird needs to be touching something grounded as well as the energized line or touching two lines with different energized potentials at the same time. Squirrels get it often because they are often attaching feet to one thing and paws to the other. A lot comes down to poor maintenance. Lines and caps have special coatings and enclosures designed to keep animals and insects out. When this equipment and coatings wear off...the danger increases. We all pay maintenance fees for tree and brush maintenance - this is more the problem than anything. What causes power outages in the winter is also causing fires in summer. This is fact.

I recently heard a documentary on CBC Radio about using managed herds of goats to eat the underbrush in fire prone areas in the US being very successful. I wonder if that is something that can be done near inhabited areas to reduce the danger posed to populations? It's apparently very inexpensive compared to other means of limiting fuel load in forests.

A bird flying into a wire and falling to the ground in flames cannot be deemed as human caused. Birds are part of the animal species. Our forests have been ignored for years , not left safe after the deadly beetle kill across the province left huge ares dead and dry. They should have been taken down and slash burnt to stop the spread. Could have prevented losing so much of the forest. Management failed

Wonderfully researched story.

Amazing story in the wildfires. I am not understanding the reasoning of our officials. We have had those fires for so long that you’d think the issue has been studied and we have recommendations about prevention . More logging? Fire breaks? Why don’t we hear about this. Tyler May be you need to have an interview with our politicians, when fires are dying down, so the public can better understand yet.

Great article. I worked in the forestry industry back in the 70's. I am surprised that no real answer to the loss of merchantable timber is being done. Government denies the logging of areas only to have fires destroy the timber. I believe that more logging is needed so we do not waste the valuable timber to fire loss. I also believe we need to create more fire breaks through the forests to help control fires before they start. A more vigorous water bomber attack is also needed to control the fires. What is with the idea that the government believes to just let some of the fires burn. Good example is fires in national parks. PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO STOP THE WASTE OF TIMBER

Really well researched and written article. Helps a reader get a much better understanding about wildfires--a subject we are all increasingly having to know more about!

Very good article, looking forward to the sequel. So what is the answer? Allow more fires to just burn, to reduce the load on the forest floor? Build bigger fire breaks around residential areas, like dikes along rivers? Mandate that forest companies clear the underbrush when they log an area?

Tyler, thanks for this article. It is this kind of information that made me a subscriber.

Excellent research . Thank you for all the information and clearing up the many misconceptions.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you so much for this story. What a lot of great info! I am hopeful, as more people read FVCurrent, we can see more intelligent discussions on a wide variety of subjects, starting with the readers and then, hopefully, travelling up the chain to the policy-makers. This is how change starts, and that change couldn't happen without great resources like the Current.