80 000 Canadians flee as their city burns. Pictures and vids look like the end of the world. Unreal.

[JosephDredd]

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ymmfire?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^hashtag

The link has videos and it's shocking. It looks like a Hollywood movie. Caravans of tens of thousands of people fleeing in their vehicles, driving through pitch darkness, only brake lights visible as they drive through flaming asphalt on the roads... except it's the brightest part of the day: their world is pitch black because of all the smoke. The videos are taken by residents fleeing in their vehicles as gas stations explode next to them.

Horrifying. I hope everyone survives and evacuates safely.

#ymmfire for updates

 

[JosephDredd]

 

[Bilbo Gaggins]

strange that there is just as much traffic going in both directions

 

[Falsedawn]

I saw a video earlier of someone driving out trying to evacuate, and it looked like the entire freaking sky was fire near the road. Smoke everywhere, looked really hellish. Needless to say, hope everyone gets out safely because it looked terrifying as hell.

 

[Skip Reming]

strange that there is just as much traffic going in both directions

looters

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

This is nuts for this time of year , unheard of really

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

looters

Lol

 

[voxom]

hopefully the government spends the resources helping those 80,000 canadian citizens get back on their feet instead of tens of thousands of refugees from the other side of the globe.

i'm not holding my breath though

 

[ironwolf]

I remember when my hometown got burned up in 2001. It was a government planned controlled burn gone wrong.


What caused this one???

 

[MadSquabbles500]

Do forest fires occur naturally up there? It is almost the Tundra. I guess you call it the taiga. Or was this like some oil refinery blowing up, and the nearby trees are just adding fuel to it?

 

[irish_thug]

This one was caused by unseasonably warm weather 32 c, low humidity and high winds.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

looters

We only do that after hockey games

 

[JosephDredd]

strange that there is just as much traffic going in both directions

It was a mess. The road to the south was cut off by fire so they all had to return. All lanes north out of the city are being used to exit.

 

[Bloody Pulp]

I remember when my hometown got burned up in 2001. It was a government planned controlled burn gone wrong.


What caused this one???

Jet fuel melted the steel beams holding up the sprinklers.

 

[JosephDredd]

I remember when my hometown got burned up in 2001. It was a government planned controlled burn gone wrong.


What caused this one???

Alberta and Saskatchewan are at extreme risk for forest fires. Lack of humidity (because of distance to huge bodies of water) and vast forests after years of droughts mean this place is about ready to burn fast.

The last decade has really changed this place. Brand new weather, brand new problems.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Do forest fires occur naturally up there? It is almost the Tundra. I guess you call it the taiga. Or was this like some oil refinery blowing up, and the nearby trees are just adding fuel to it?

In BC we have a couple thousand wildfires a year , not sure about Alberta

 

[JosephDredd]

In BC we have a couple thousand wildfires a year , not sure about Alberta

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

In BC we have a couple thousand wildfires a year , not sure about Alberta

wtf srs? Im in Ontario and had no idea that was happening in BC.

 

[JosephDredd]

The clip at 0:30 of this video is unreal. It will stick with me for years. Looks like a Hollywood movie.

 

[JosephDredd]

These videos are also shocking. Utter devestation.