WKN Weer, Klimaat en Natuurrampen
Lees alles over het onstuimige weer op onze planeet, volg orkanen en tornado's, zie hoe vulkanen uitbarsten en hoe Moeder Aarde beeft bij een aardbeving. Alles over de verwoestende kracht van onze planeet en tal van andere natuurverschijnselen.
quote:Wildfires Alberta, Canada, rage on
Tan and gray smoke spanned hundreds of kilometers across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories, Canada, on May 16, 2011. At 10:00 a.m., the Alberta government reported 116 fires burning in the province, 34 of which were out of control. The following day, the total number of fires had dropped to 100, and the number of uncontrolled fires had dropped to 22, but four new fires had started to burn out of control.
The fires forced some energy and transportation companies to suspend operations, reported CBC News. Multiple petroleum companies suspended drilling in the region and moved their employees to safety. A pipeline closure and halted railway service hampered oil transport. Meanwhile, fires near Lesser Slave Lake destroyed 40 percent of the town of Slave Lake on May 15, including hundreds of homes and businesses, and the town hall.
On May 17, CBC News reported that British Columbia was sending 200 more firefighters, in addition to the 130 firefighters already deployed to Alberta the previous day. Fire danger remained extreme throughout much of northern Alberta on May 17, the government reported.
quote:More evacuations on the way
Mandatory evacuations were issued Tuesday night in Loon River, parts of the MD of Lesser Slave Lake, Red Earth Creek, Whitefish Lake, and Woodland Cree First Nations.
Meanwhile, Slave Lake looks like a war zone, with hundreds of homes and businesses reduced to gray ash and rubble.
The province says fire in residential areas is under control, but wildfires continue to burn near the town, and wind gusts remain unpredictable.
More Alberta land has been burned by wildfires in the past few days than in all of 2010 combined.
There are currently more than 1,400 firefighters from Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario battling blazes throughout the province, the majority of which are tackling the most destructive near Slave Lake.
On Wednesday, 200 additional firefighters from Ontario will arrive to help provide additional assistance.
Brian McAsey with the Calgary Fire Department is in Slave Lake and tells 660News, the extra help will certainly provide relief for those that have become exhausted.
"They're getting pretty tired. I think we're going to have to change them out. They're certainly fatigued but our guys still have lots of energy and we split them into two groups and so they're switching off 12 hour shifts and they seem to be doing just fine with the work ahead of them," says McAsey.
Rob Harris with Sustainable Resource Development says 100,000 hectares of land has been destroyed and there are currently 100 wildfires burning in Alberta with 23 of those out of control.
"Of course the Slave Lake ones are the top priority in the province right now but there are also fires burning up in the Red Earth area, Fort McMurray area, the Whitecourt area and the Lake La Biche area," says Harris.
He adds crews are now working to contain the fire outside the town of Slave Lake but the threat of lightning in the coming days is creating concern that more blazes may be sparked.
Weer een mooi stuk natuur in vlammen op
Duizenden mensen worden geëvacueerd. Zijn die duinbrandjes bij ons niets bij
Canada, erg mooi land, met zo enorm veel mooie natuur
Je snapt toch hopelijk wel dat bosbranden vitaal zijn voor een gezond stuk bosquote:Op woensdag 18 mei 2011 10:35 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Weer een mooi stuk natuur in vlammen op
Duizenden mensen worden geëvacueerd. Zijn die duinbrandjes bij ons niets bij
Canada, erg mooi land, met zo enorm veel mooie natuur
Wildfire Devastates Alberta Town
Thousands have fled a wildfire that wiped out 40 percent of a northern Alberta town.
According to CBC News, fire torched half the homes in the town of Slave Lake on Sunday. The town's mall, town hall and many downtown businesses were said to be destroyed as well.
The wildfire reportedly continued to burn uncontrolled as of 6 p.m., local time, Monday.
The CBC said that almost all of the 7,000 residents of the town were evacuated and transported to a number of shelters elsewhere in the western Canada province.
Most of the devastation apparently happened within a very short span of time on Sunday, when high winds sent flames racing through the town. One volunteer firefighter said, "ten minutes in the town and it was black."
NASA MODIS image shows fires and smoke plumes over northern Alberta, Canada, on May 15, 2011.
Weeks of below-normal rainfall in much of heavily wooded northern Alberta had already made conditions ripe for fires.
Then came the extreme fire weather of Sunday. Weather observations from the Slave Lake airport show persistent dry high winds of 30 to 50 mph for about 10 hours on Sunday. Relative humidity dove below 20 percent Sunday afternoon.
"These conditions make it incredibly difficult for firefighters to contain fires quickly," Rob Harris, Alberta wildfire information officer, was quoted by the CBC as having said. "The wind compounds the problem we're already experiencing, which is warm, dry temperatures."
CBC added that there were 115 fires still burning in Alberta, 36 of which were considered out of control.
Along with the tragic outcome for area residents, the fires weighed upon natural resource extraction in the region. Australian ABC News reported on Tuesday that the fires led oil companies to shut off thousands of barrels of output.
AccuWeather.com meteorologists foresee above-normal temperatures and below-normal rainfall across northern Alberta through this week, so conditions will remain rather unfavorable for control of active fires.
Thousands have fled a wildfire that wiped out 40 percent of a northern Alberta town.
According to CBC News, fire torched half the homes in the town of Slave Lake on Sunday. The town's mall, town hall and many downtown businesses were said to be destroyed as well.
The wildfire reportedly continued to burn uncontrolled as of 6 p.m., local time, Monday.
The CBC said that almost all of the 7,000 residents of the town were evacuated and transported to a number of shelters elsewhere in the western Canada province.
Most of the devastation apparently happened within a very short span of time on Sunday, when high winds sent flames racing through the town. One volunteer firefighter said, "ten minutes in the town and it was black."
NASA MODIS image shows fires and smoke plumes over northern Alberta, Canada, on May 15, 2011.
Weeks of below-normal rainfall in much of heavily wooded northern Alberta had already made conditions ripe for fires.
Then came the extreme fire weather of Sunday. Weather observations from the Slave Lake airport show persistent dry high winds of 30 to 50 mph for about 10 hours on Sunday. Relative humidity dove below 20 percent Sunday afternoon.
"These conditions make it incredibly difficult for firefighters to contain fires quickly," Rob Harris, Alberta wildfire information officer, was quoted by the CBC as having said. "The wind compounds the problem we're already experiencing, which is warm, dry temperatures."
CBC added that there were 115 fires still burning in Alberta, 36 of which were considered out of control.
Along with the tragic outcome for area residents, the fires weighed upon natural resource extraction in the region. Australian ABC News reported on Tuesday that the fires led oil companies to shut off thousands of barrels of output.
AccuWeather.com meteorologists foresee above-normal temperatures and below-normal rainfall across northern Alberta through this week, so conditions will remain rather unfavorable for control of active fires.
Het zomerseizoen is nog niet eens officieel begonnen en het wemelt alweer van branden overal. Waar ligt dit eigenlijk aan al dit onheil elke keer? 
Waar ligt dit eigenlijk aan al dit onheil elke keer?
Yvonne schreef op maandag 31 oktober 2011 @
13:59:43 in DEF SC #282 aan AchJa & Co
Vanaf hier en nu stopt het in DEF én op FOK!
Ik wil hier een normale SC zonder gebitch!
13:59:43 in DEF SC #282 aan AchJa & Co
Vanaf hier en nu stopt het in DEF én op FOK!
Ik wil hier een normale SC zonder gebitch!
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