A burning platform for a national fire administration

Creating a Canadian Fire Administration could be one of the most consequential policy tools in the history of fire and emergency management in Canada. Fire chiefs are willing to help make this happen. We hope policy leaders will take our advice seriously.

A forest fire in Mistissini, Que., on June 12, 2023. Canada is burning: the equivalent of five million footballs fields. This is the year that the lines between provincial wildfire firefighting and local structural firefighting blurred, write Ken McMullen and Tina Saryeddine.Photograph courtesy of Cpl. Marc-André Leclerc/DND

Opinion

BY KEN MCMULLEN AND TINA SARYEDDINE

November 29, 2023

When the United States established its National Fire Administration in 1974, it was in response to the fire devastation observed and then documented in a report called America Burning that was commissioned by then-president Richard Nixon.

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