Alberta
- Created by: jessica ashworth
- Created on: 18-02-20 19:41
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- Fires in nature Alberta
- Spacial and temporal
- North east of Canada
- May 2016
- started in south west and expanded around south east side
- Perception
- low at first, fire under control, area remote
- Perception increased when wind changed direction
- Spread to largest settlement fort Mcmurray
- Perception increased when wind changed direction
- low at first, fire under control, area remote
- Impacts
- Social
- 90,000 flee
- 2400 homes and buildings burnt down
- Power supplies disrupted
- Contaminated water supplies
- Environmental
- several mil tonnes co2 released from fire
- Toxic surge from ash, fish and wildlife died
- Mercury, lead etc
- Air pollution went to usa and gulf coast
- Economic
- 9 bil dollar damage on fort mcmurray
- 1/3 25,000 workers evacuated from oil/sand industry. Industry cost of 1 bil canadian dollars
- Social
- Responses
- Factors affecting response
- Hard to reach
- use helicopters to drop water
- Hard to use as smoke released clouded views
- use helicopters to drop water
- Hard to reach
- Short term
- Use satellite and meteorological data to monitor
- Fire warnings and emergency serviced mobilised
- water bombs
- 90,000 immediately evacuated
- State of emergency delared
- firefighters from elsewhere brought in
- Long term
- Alberta gov, 1250 dollars per adult and 500 dollars per dependant to cover living expenses
- Red cross 50 mil dollars donations
- Benefit at end of june 'fire aid'
- Factors affecting response
- Spacial and temporal
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