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Alberta mountain towns preparing for upcoming wildfire season
Alberta towns like Canmore and Hinton are creating fireguards and promoting FireSmart measures after the 2024 Jasper fire, with 60% of wildfires linked to human causes.
- Alberta mountain towns like Canmore are preparing for the upcoming wildfire season by building fireguards, which clear a strip of land to stop fires.
- Canmore is in the midst of a multi-phase project to build a fireguard around the town, with one phase completed and others underway.
- Thirteen neighbourhoods in Canmore are part of the FireSmart program that urges homeowners to take preventative measures like cleaning debris from roofs.
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’Low-grade anxiety:’ Alberta towns preparing for upcoming wildfire season
CANMORE, Alta. -- Despite spring snow still dusting parts of Alberta, it's now officially wildfire season, and with it comes once again the gnawing worry about which community will next be touched by nature's fickle finger of destruction.
·Toronto, Canada
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Anxiety in some Alberta mountain towns as wildfire season begins
Despite spring snow still dusting parts of Alberta, it's now officially wildfire season, and with it comes once again the gnawing worry about which community will next be touched by nature's fickle finger of destruction.
·Canada
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'Low grade anxiety': Alberta mountain towns preparing for upcoming wildfire season
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
·Winnipeg, Canada
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Total News Sources14
Leaning Left7Leaning Right1Center3Last UpdatedBias Distribution64% Left
Bias Distribution
- 64% of the sources lean Left
64% Left
L 64%
C 27%
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