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Canadian military mobilizes to help fight wildfires in Northwest Territories
AP ^ | 8/15/2023

Posted on 08/15/2023 6:41:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

As of Tuesday, there were over 230 active wildfires in the territory, and five communities had been evacuated. Hundreds of northerners were being airlifted from at least three communities in the face of wind-whipped wildfires.

“Over the past 24 hours or so there has been an airlift like this territory has never seen,” Northwest Territories fire information officer Mike Westwick said Monday. “Planes flying out of Hay River, planes flying out of Fort Smith, planes flying out of Jean Marie River.”

“The highways are compromised. It’s a very serious situation,” he added.

Jane Groenewegen was helping a friend leave the hamlet of Enterprise just south of Hay River on Sunday evening when Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers knocked on the door.

“They said, ‘No, you have to evacuate immediately.’ It was probably only 30 to 45 minutes after that when basically the entire town of Enterprise burned down,” she said in a phone interview.

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1 posted on 08/15/2023 6:41:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If they can find who is setting the fires, I’d recommend
capital punishment as soon as they can be proven guilty.


2 posted on 08/15/2023 6:44:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

3, 2, 1…


3 posted on 08/15/2023 6:45:21 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: DoughtyOne
Looks like Ecoterrorists and the pyrophiliacs they inspire fantasies in are back in full swing in Canada. Wildfire smoke from Quebec causing poor air quality in northern Ont.
4 posted on 08/15/2023 6:49:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: DoughtyOne

90% of forest fires are man-caused. Carelessness is the biggest cause of man-caused fires. Campers, campfires, and cigarettes are the most common causes.
Lightning is a major cause.


5 posted on 08/15/2023 6:50:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Carelessness is the biggest cause of man-caused fires

Back in 1968?

6 posted on 08/15/2023 6:54:20 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Canadian military mobilizes …
7 posted on 08/15/2023 6:57:32 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Yeah, I will never forget that video where you could watch
about 15-20 fires start at the same time and watch the smoke
trail off in the distance almost as if it was the same exact
smoke trail.


8 posted on 08/15/2023 7:06:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Link?


9 posted on 08/15/2023 7:08:23 PM PDT by Norski
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah, I will never forget that video where you could watch
about 15-20 fires start at the same time and watch the smoke
trail off in the distance almost as if it was the same exact
smoke trail.

Lightening is a reasoned cause, but it doesn’t strike in
15-20 places and start fires all at one time.

You’ll get a strike here, a strike there, a few more strikes,
but they take place over a half hour or so.

These all started at exactly the same time. They weren’t
all in a line like a front just came through either, causing
unstable weather conditions.


10 posted on 08/15/2023 7:09:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Plus there is nothing more reliable to make a BIG wildfire than an intentionally set one, with all the benefits of the expanding craft.


11 posted on 08/15/2023 7:14:09 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Here they try to debunk the online observations regarding this
video. What they can’t deny is that all there fires started
at the same time.

Look, even when you speed up video, you see a new fire
starting up with less of a smoke trail. You don’t see a
progression of new fires over time. You see the fires all
start, all the columns of smoke build, and they blow off
in the distance remaining the same length.

These started at the exact set-upon time.

This is utter news-speak disinformation.
I’ve read articles about using fire as a weapon. You
tie up lots of resources, disrupt normalcy, and you cause
mass perceptional trauma in the public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9atDnatkH_Y


12 posted on 08/15/2023 7:19:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Norski

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4175382/posts?page=12#12


13 posted on 08/15/2023 7:27:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Yeah, I guess so. You can pick the worst locations and hope
to burn some communities I guess.


14 posted on 08/15/2023 7:29:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Sounds like they rushed out that debunk attempt without waiting for the PR consultant to come back from vacation lolz


15 posted on 08/15/2023 7:32:53 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Yes, it was rather ham handed.


16 posted on 08/15/2023 7:35:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

whats left? A little to late, planned delay. Truduea helping the climate change agenda


17 posted on 08/16/2023 4:25:58 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

No doubt. Well I’m sure there is all of that, but sadly they might not even need to take their own action or delay for the agenda. Simply by media hyping wildfires on big plasma TVs for the sake of global warming hysteria, the media is stimulating pyrophiliacs to fantasize about setting their own wildfires and seeing them covered on TV.


18 posted on 08/16/2023 11:16:33 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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