-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 05-Aug-2018 16:36 <=-   
      
    NB>> How far north of me are the ones in Ontario...?   
      
    MK> From my understanding the bulk of the fires are in the northeast on   
    MK> the Ontario side of the Ontario/Quebec border.  However the major one,   
    MK> to the northwest of you, is just south of Sudbury and is (was?) the   
    MK> greatest threat to life and limb.  At one point it threatened to shut   
    MK> down the Trans Canada highway.  I haven't heard much about it since   
    MK> then which was about a week ago.   
      
   I had a look at the map... not all that close to me, thankfully.  We've   
   heard nothing at all about those fires on our news, only about the ones   
   in California and to a lesser extent about the ones in Oregon... Maybe   
   by now the Sudbury one is contained....   
      
    MK> All I know is that they cannot spare   
    MK> any fire fighters to BC now that things are flaring up here.    
    MK> Apparently as of the last couple of days we are looking to import fire   
    MK> fighters from abroad.    
      
   We've already been using National Guard troops, and I heard recently   
   that regular Army troops are being trained to go help fight the fires as   
   well...    
      
    NB>> Is it worth a hike to the probable vicinity to see if they are   
    NB>> still around....?   
      
    MK> No problem really since the hike is not much of a hike or at least it   
    MK> wasn't before the middle of May when I last spotted the local   
    MK> neighbourhood flock.  I thought for sure they'd show themselves long   
    MK> before this.  I have a bad feeling the slight increase in human   
    MK> activity this summer might have scared them off.  Perhaps we were   
    MK> close to the tipping point prior to this season.    
      
   Possible.  Maybe they moved farther away from the human activity...?   
      
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