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Posted on 06/07/2025 6:22:05 AM PDT by jerod
Prince Albert RCMP investigate 3rd arson attempt at fire base
While wildfires continue to rage in the province, two Saskatchewan residents accused of deliberately setting separate fires have now been charged with arson.
At Friday's daily media briefing, Premier Scott Moe announced the charges and said that one of them was for starting one of the province's major wildfires.
But in a news release later in the afternoon, the RCMP detailed charges that were laid for two suspicious fires — one that Waskesiu RCMP responded to off Highway 696 on May 30 and one that Nipawin RCMP responded to in a ditch beside the Snowden turnoff on Highway 55 on June 3. Neither of those appear to be related to a major wildfire.
The fire that Moe initially referred to, the Ditch fire, near Weyakwin, was reported on May 26. It has grown to 95,000 hectares and appears to be moving very close to the massive Shoe fire — the largest blaze in the province at more than 470,000 hectares.
Those fires and others in northern Saskatchewan have forced thousands of residents from their homes. The province declared a state of emergency on May 29 due to the wildfire situation. As of Friday, there were 23 active fires and 248 total fires this year — far above the five-year average of 139.
"We understand there is public interest in seeing if any wildfires can be fully or partially attributed to criminal acts," Saskatchewan RCMP wrote in the media release. "Checking into the circumstances of each report of arson received recently will take some time."
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A search revealed that AOC made her “12 years left” prediction on January 22, 2019. About five years and six months left until the end!
“Wildfires”
I laugh. But there are fools enough to make it happen. But not through “climate change.”
We lived in Prince Albert for 18 months...trees up there grow very slow. This is devastating.
So they don’t give out the names of the suspects or who was charged? I’d like to know when they are going to get the fires put out. Just tired of the haze and the smell.
Only 5.64 years left. Prepare to gird something.
Once those fires get going there is no way to put them out that far north in rugged terrain. The fires quit burning when rain falls or the head of the fires runs into a lake that the embers can't cross. Firefighters will try and save towns, but there is not much they can do in wilderness areas..
Arsonists should get the death penalty.
The UN climate chief Simon Stiell has called for immediate action, stating that humanity has only two years left to avert the most severe impacts of climate change. This timeframe highlights the urgency of transitioning to cleaner energy sources, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and securing financial resources for climate action.
I can only find it was an 18 yo woman from Montreal Lake Cree Nation and a 36 yo man from Pelican Narrows.
Enough is enough. Drop them in the middle of the fire with a bottle of water and if they can get out then no charges.
PETA is nowhere to be found for all the animals that died. They’ve been crickets for a few years.
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I agree.
I would wait to see what fires these two started, it could be just banned slash fires weeks after the major spreading fires were already going. The major fires began weeks ago.
The US should be suing Canada for all those fires accelerating Climate Change apocalypse.
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