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Explore real-time global wildfire tracking with data from NASA FIRMS, EFFIS, and local authorities on FireMap.live.
Unfortunately, there are three to worry about currently.
The Old Trails fire, which is northwest of the city, cutting through the North Indian Trail and Balboa/South Indian Trail. This fire broke out Saturday, the first of August, just before noon. Currently, the fire is 2500 acres, is 0% contained. Though, more of my sources say “unknown % containment”, so there might be some successes that just haven’t hit the media yet.
The Old Trails Map; screenshotted from fire map.live at 11:15AM PST
The Autumn Lane fire, further northwest than Old Trails, up by the Nine Mile Falls/Suncrest area, also broke out on the first of August. 1200 acres burned, also 0% contained.
The Autumn Lane Map; screenshotted from fire map.live at 11:17AM PST
Finally, the Fairview Fire. Northeast of the city this time, straddling the Orchard Prairie and Mead neighborhoods. This fire is 980 acres burned, and also 0% contained.
The Fairview Map; screenshotted from fire map.live at 11:15AM PST
My heart is aching. I lived in Spokane, Washington for a while and I still have a lot of family there. I'm having a hard time fathoming what is going on there right now and how it could very well be us soon. We have one burning not too far to our west right now. I'm starting to think the world will indeed end by fire.
Images from the Old Trails fire in Spokane, Wash. I’m reeling for my community and for several of my friends who have likely lost their home
Residents of one First Nations community went door-to-door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning.
More than 900 wildfires are burning throughout Canada, with devastating impacts for First Nations. Thirteen Nations remain under evacuation orders that have forced 2,182 people from their homes.
The Namaygoosisagagun (Collins) First Nation watched one blaze largely destroy its entire community in less than an hour, forcing residents to flee by boat. Residents reported having only minutes to gather their belongings before homes were overtaken by the flames on Wednesday, and Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige said in a statement that all community members have been accounted for pending a full assessment.
The COVID-era political divide is still having ripple effects.
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I say all the time there are millions of reasons to mask. Many of them are getting worse and worse as the planet continues to warm. Quit acting like 2020s covid-hoaxers and protect yourselves and your families.
Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argenti
Since 5 January, more than 36,000 hectares (90,000 acres) of native forests, grasslands, villages and tourist resorts in Patagonia have been ravaged by wildfires, mainly in the southern Argentine province of Chubut, according to the Federal Emergency Agency (AFE). Greenpeace says the affected area exceeds 40,000 hectares.
Wildfires are also hitting Chile, with at least 18 people killed this month. Environmental groups and workers blame extreme weather, which scientists link to the climate crisis and cuts to national fire-prevention budgets.
“There was a confluence of many climatic factors,” says Andrés Nápoli, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (Farn). “This year has not had enough snowfall; there are low humidity levels and a high accumulation of combustible elements in the forest” – a reference to monoculture pine plantations, which act as “powder kegs”.
Recent rainfall and the firefighters’ efforts brought momentary relief, but outbreaks reactivated after a prolonged heatwave and strong winds.
President Javier Milei’s government has systematically defunded the National Fire Management Service (SNMF), resulting in a reduction of 81% on last year’s budget.
Prevention efforts, such as building firebreaks and community engagement, have been hampered, with firefighters forced to work in poor conditions and for low salaries.
The budget cuts, says Nápoli, also affect early-warning systems and aerial support, with firefighting aircraft flight hours being cut from 5,100 to 3,100.
Communities in the area are forming their own firefighting brigades to work alongside the official ones. “We use chainsaws, rakes, hoses, motor pumps – everyday objects,” says Diego Calfuqueo, a raspberry farmer.
Last week, Milei – who did not travel to the affected area – posted an AI-generated image of himself shaking hands with firefighters on Instagram, calling them “heroes”. “It’s a little hypocritical and cynical,” says a local firefighter, Hernán Mondino, adding that many of his colleagues have to take on other jobs to make ends meet.
According to Hernán Giardini, forests coordinator at Greenpeace, government policy now aligns with Milei’s claims that a human-made climate crisis does not exist.
“He defunded the forestry law, which is part of the funds allocated to the provinces for the care of native forests, used by the Patagonian provinces for many related issues, such as wildfires,” he says. “Argentina ranks among the 15 countries that deforest the most worldwide.”
The crisis has ignited unfounded theories and scapegoating, with the government pushing the narrative that a group of Indigenous people in Chile and Argentina, the Mapuches, are to blame. Last week, the national security minister alleged on X that “preliminary evidence suggests that these crimes are linked to terrorist groups calling themselves Mapuche”.
“If one people is defending their territory and setting limits on this extractivist capitalism, it is the Mapuche people,” says Mauro Millán, a Mapuche leader from the Pillan Mahuiza community, near Los Alerces national park, which was also affected by the wildfires.
Millán says the government was “rehashing the absurd theory of the arsonist Mapuche”, but that “nobody believes them any more”. Last year, he says, police raided his community due to similar allegations, but the case was dropped.
Mapuche communities are not the only ones being blamed. Some politicians and media pundits have blamed Israeli citizens and even the Israeli government, reviving an old antisemitic conspiracy theory, the “Andinia Plan”, which claims that Jews want to establish a state in Patagonia.
Carlos Díaz Mayer, the prosecutor investigating the wildfires, confirms that the working hypothesis is that at least some of the blazes were not “natural”, adding: “We found accelerants in the place where the fire likely started.”
He added, however, that the Chubut prosecutor’s office had found no evidence pointing to the allegations agianst Mapuches or Israelis.
The consequences of the fires, according to Nápoli, are evident and will be long-lasting. “We are talking about an extremely biodiverse area, with places that have even been designated as protected sites for the preservation of the huemul deer,” he says, highlighting that the local population’s housing, jobs and health will be seriously affected.
“The trees will remain standing,” he says, “but the land will be left as ashes.”
OTTAWA — A small First Nations community in Ontario that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the he
A small First Nations community in Ontario that was burned to the ground by a raging wildfire on Monday is being deprived of the help it needs because the federal government doesn't recognize it as a First Nation, the community's lawyer says.
And its chief says she didn't hear anything from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty for nearly a week after the fire broke out.
Residents of Collins First Nation, a remote community without road access more than 200 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, were forced to self-evacuate earlier this week in advance of fast-moving fires.
Historic wildfires blaze through LA months after the Democratically-run city cut fire service funds.
News headlines rhetorically ask us to consider what happens when CA inmates - working as firefighters for roughly $6 per day - cannot contain unprecedented fires.
Billionaires drain the already water-starved state of its supply as hydrants dry up when needed most.
every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.
go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.
A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud, which are far more common in Canada.
A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud.
Such clouds can only be seen during huge wildfires, and are often reported in Canada during wildfire season, most recently during the Boston Bar fire in B.C.
Here's how these special clouds form and how they can make wildfires worse.
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