British Columbia Forest Fire

Posted by alla (Toronto, Canada) on 26 March 2007 in Landscape & Rural.

The 2003 forest fire season on the West Coast of Canada was one of the worst in a century. Extremely dry conditions all summer turned the forest into a tinderbox. Travel throughout the interior of B.C. was totally banned. In Kelowna, 248 homes were destroyed and 30,000 people were evacuated by the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire. In Barriere, the mill was destroyed, leaving most of the town unemployed.
The cost of fighting the fires was over half a billion dollars. In total, over 2460 forest fires burned in B.C. in 2003.

This picture was taken in Alberta (neighboring province to BC). You can see (and smell) the smog all the way there.

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