‘They need more local resources’: greater co-ordination needed in wildfire response, Senate committee hears

While well below the 16 million hectares burned in the record-setting 2023 season, this year’s wildfire season was still the second-worst in terms of area burned since 1995.

The remains of the Palisades Centre, Jasper National Park, after a wildfire destroyed large portions of the townsite this past July.Photograph courtesy of Parks Canada

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BY STEPHEN JEFFERY

December 15, 2024

In the wake of the second-worst fire season in almost three decades, a Senate committee recently heard that more resourcing and co-ordination are needed to support firefighters, whether through the creation of a national disaster response agency, or by beefing up the support...

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