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. it is estimated, the annual average global cost of the wildfires is around $50000000000.00, which is not even include the ultimate price of the loss of life and sky. now hughes, and on this edition of 360 view, we're going to examine the controversial use of controlled burns for prevention as data from the world media. logical organization predicts an increase in extreme fires globally of up to 30 percent by 2050. let's get started. the a method wildfire in canada sit smoke all the way down the east coast of the united states. and as of course, while it works on us, a lot of shows us the scene locks on a well. scottie in early june, canada has over 400 while fires burning more than 200 work on see they're out of

control. the fires court 9400000 acres, which is 15 times the average over 10 years was absolutely no question. this is an unprecedented history in canadian walls, fire kind of that received help from congress on over the world, including south africa and the united states to help battle that was while fires you've in more than 3400 sort of did say you, good firefighters from every continent in the world you this year say good south korea, you've got the australia. you've got the brazilians or coming chileans, or you don't just the costa ricans, it'd be near the north americans that africans bought to go frogs. you've had them from a over the. ready to truly internationally, if at this get for spoke to a group of firefighters from south africa who came to join the fight. well,

we do have some pharmacy, it is also, but nothing on the scale that you have in canada. so while much of the principles of firefighting is the same, the scale of the operation, yeah, is absolutely something to be seen then of something we've done. this has been count in the sophistication of the planning. the way you use your, with the monitoring capacity to predict fire behavior, to predict, and that's why you read no fatalities. this bias, these new bed problems that they've been ravaged by the fires, but not the tell is because of the old predictive tools that you have in place. and then the 2nd major difference is that is the capacity of a 5 to bit underground. yeah. the if the pete fires, which often survives the lounges of rain and keep on smoldering and can split up at any other time. so we looked at the excavate, those fires underground,

one of our teams encountered etc. and it looked like a chimney at the top end with a cut, the tree down, there was a fire aging and it's cool. so that's very different. we ask, how did this fire compared to what they are used to in south africa? well, we did quite a bit of an induction in terms of why live in canada b as being one of the key issues. so one of the firefighters relating to the story, we was walking 8 always the him. and he came across the bed and it stood up on its side legs of c 2 times since what it was dealing with by that time, the other part is joining beam and nothing. but they decide that there's too many of them, many wondered also they have good be with souls. they've got training in terms of you know, avoiding bays and trying to make noise. but anyway manitoba, it was a very dry season. 2021. the bays were really hungry and we were camping out in the wild and they would definitely make a move on out kitchens and the wildlife authorities that to intervene them and

killed 3 babies and taking that time kind of us prime minister and dusting for the funds their neighbors to the south in a swede, same hundreds of american fire fighters have recently arrived and kind of the more on the way i spoke with president joe biden, about these critical support and a send him for all the help americans are providing as we continue to fight these devastating wall fires the out of control burns. have cause critics to go after 2 adults for repeatedly using the excuse of climate change saying that countries still con is still preventative. measures such as forest painting, rush, removal, and small control burns true though he back he stopped up to see some fearful live in parliament for the leader of the opposition to consider that the forest fires are taking people from their communities and destroying their homes are in near distraction and on top of mind,

the meanwhile, canada is not the only one affected by the wall fires. all of the smoke came down to the east coast and covered the united states in a norton's haze. here you can see new york city nearly covered, the air quality became so low, people were told to wear mask again and to stay indoors. score was in new york city of philadelphia were moved on line to prevent students from going outside. i'm reading the smoke filled air influencers in tip top girl even took the opportunity to joke on the scary conditions. right. why don't you know why it was like day you down to the nation's capital? you can see here the difference on a tiered day with the haze of the canadian while fires, outdoor activities will completely cancel for schools in washington dc. due to air

quality concern. the smoke even made it as far as the outer banks in north carolina . you can see here the difference from before and after the smoke roll being completely blocking the view of the ocean. just a block away where i work is we are part of the ground forces we work in concert with the little bombing. but interestingly enough, we have not been confronted with the smoke that you have found drifting from your eastern seaboard right down into new york and washington and pennsylvania. um yeah, the window is generally taking the smoke itself away from the fire area. so we haven't had much in terms of smoke contamination, per se. what we doing in the deep clean complex around the edison town, which is about a 180 kilometers to the waste of edmonton, the capital. we were bought all the tires when it will slade up. in the 2nd evacuation of this at the end, eventually together with

a number of firefighters from other countries and canada. we've actually brought that fi under control and go said quite a storm that the same that on this area, the posting some 100 many meters of, of rain. this fires have left to can the best part lament and the united states congress to begin draft the leg legislation to prevent future out of control while fires in the future. for 360 view brooks on a solano back to your study. thank you roxanna. to give us an inside look into controlled burns and why some environmental list object to their use. we bring in edward a story, is that a writer fellow cleans institute for energy and environmental policy. a school of policy studies, queens university, kingston, canada. he's also author of firestorm. how wildfire will shape our future. thanks for joining us. okay, i want to start with the basics for our audience. what is they could have

controlled burn, and when is it effective to use? a control burn is something that we learn from indigenous people before just when we arrived here, it is essentially burning a forest. you should be in this shoulder season such as spring and fall when the spread of fire is not likely. and the idea is to remove excess fuel on the ground. so a lot of deadwood, a lot of really old trees that are highly combustible. and so what it does is it helps to regenerate a forest and it also reduces that fuel. so when the next fire comes sweeping through, it doesn't burn as intensely, and it's very interesting that it goes back to the indigenous people. but in the present there's everyone in the agriculture and the scientific community actually agree on its use. know for the longest time, and i think there's still a lot of pushback. uh they didn't degree. you know,

we are humans that arrived mostly in the 1st stages from europe where fire was not common. smoke was not great, especially during the very small the days of coal burning plants back then. and so the fresh air of north america is really welcome. and when your opinions arrived and found the indigenous people were burning in the spring and fall in places even like virginia in the 1600s, they put a stop to it and back they uh, they took some of them to court. eventually we kicked them all out of the national park, such as yellowstone use somebody in the states and in banf in jasper and canada to prevent them from burning. and one to really tori is seen and riding mountain national park as recently as 1939. when that part was established, they kicked out the indigenous people, they actually walk the mode and to make sure that they didn't come back,

they actually burned down their cabinets to turn them from doing that again. and that opposition continues to this day that we see didn't business communities in the tourist industry that do not like to have burned out for us or partially burned out for us. they think that it's unattractive for tourist that they don't like the idea of having smoke prevail on you know, a really nice sunny day and i'm afraid as well as that we've had a number of control burns that have got out of control over the years. it's still risky proposition, and probably the most famous notorious is the, the, the fire in new mexico. that was a control burn. that was started by the us for service and got out of control. and

over ran the los alamos nuclear weapons site and causing the evacuation of that entire community and that station there. so we still have risks associated with this. and one of the big problems is we have so many people on the landscape that are in harm's way, but it is really, really difficult to, to do control burned outside of a national park. you know, there seems something very odd about burning down forest all in order to protect forest. some conservation was actually believe that it's a wrong to do control the burning because they believe you're distorting nature. how do you respond to them? well the responses is a complicated one. now if you look at say the. ready ariel forest of uh, most of canada, parts of michigan, the great lake states of those trees you know, are spruce and pine. and the only way they can really regenerate to release the cohens from, or the seeds from their cones is by heat,

birds and squirrels can do it, but really not effectively enough to help re generation. and so essentially, these trees have evolved to have an intimate relationship with the, with fire. and so fire actually is the best way of allowing these for us to regenerate now in the american west where you have to have trees that are bit more resilient to fire. they're actually pretty, you know, not as the relationship is a bit of a different one. they are very, very sick bark. so you can actually burn that forest and the trees will survive. those big giants can survive because the fire can not get through that fit bark, but it does actually uh, regenerate the force,

the small brushes. what's that? what's the with the with that are on the ground. now the important thing as well as i think i'll give you an example here. there was a study done a while back and i was involved in a that was an observer. we note several times with the scientist, a southern grizzly bears in the national parks in western canada. some of those barriers are, uh, we share with montana and what they couldn't figure out was why the barriers and the national parks tended to be sooner and smaller than the errors on the side of national parks. and then they realize that the, the answer was that the areas outside the national parks were disturbed more by fire than within the national parks goes to national parts. we suppress fires for so long and the, and what happened was that you had this canopy that shaded out all of the root vegetables and all of the berries that the bears depended on. and so that was why

the beer is outside the park tended to do better, although the population didn't grow was because they didn't have the protection, they had the national park. so it was kind of a trade off. they had more food, but they're more likely to be poached or hit by a truck or, you know, all the, all of the safeguards that we have in the national park, but you don't have outside of the national park. and that's one of the reasons why national parks and yellowstone, and yosemite, and in glacier national park, banff and jasper are doing control, burns. one of the reasons is that they're trying to encourage the growth of those root vegetables and berries that so many animals depend on. so is there a universal policy regarding controlled burning globally? so there's a universal body, but there's a lot of trading of information between the fire organizations in europe and north america. here in north america, we have what we call a fam or for a fire compact. and it started, interestingly enough,

for i think in 1954 when bar harbor main burn big. and it caught the attention needs of the president of the united states of the time . because this is where the rich from hollywood and other quarters went to in summer and when the town burn. uh, they used all their resources to try to put it out and they didn't have enough. and they brought in.