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Gutted homes and smoky streets in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Fort McMurray.
TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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As he stood on 12th Avenue with 35 homes and dozens of vehicles in flames around him, Lesser Slave Lake Regional Fire Chief Jamie Coutts was assaulted by a flood of thoughts.
One was that his team wasn’t trained to fight the kind of mega-fire that had roared out of the northeast Alberta forest in May, 2011, igniting parts of Slave Lake with a blizzard of embers that rained from the sky.
Another was “this happened in Kelowna in 2003, why didn’t we all learn from that?”
A great article on why living with fire is something we all need to consider when we choose beautiful landscapes such as central Oregon. Read the full article here: Why Didn't We All Learn?
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