ohheyimstealthy:

I know I have been posting a lot about the wildfires here in Canada but this shit is scary. 

“Almost 3,000 fires have burned across the four western provinces in 2015, burning a total of 460,000 hectares so far with more than half the season to go.“

To give you a comparison, last year there was a total of 3,500 fires all season. We are only at the start of July. We have a good 3 months of this left.

“Saskatchewan officials said Saturday that 51 communities were under full or partial evacuation. More than 5,000 people are out of their homes already, and an additional 7,900 were ordered to evacuate in the north Saturday“

Thousands of people are being evacuated and this is only ONE province! There are 3 other provinces as well with thousands being evacuated. 

The worst part? There is so much smoke that the air quality is awful. People are being told to stay indoors, to not be active, to keep windows shut. The fact that the temperatures have been hovering around 30C (86F)and have gotten as high as 40C (104) does not help. It makes everything more dry and no one out here has air conditioning because these temperatures are nearly unheard of. 

“As St Mary’s Hospital in nearby Sechelt filled to at capacity and B.C. Emergency Health Services reported a significant spike in ambulance calls from smoke-related respiratory distress“

Now here is the really scary part. These 4 provinces total 2.9 MILLION KMsq. The total area of California? 423 THOUSAND KMsq. This means the thousands of fires are effecting a land area the size of 6 California’s! Or, an area the size of California + Nevada + Arizona + Utah + Colorado + New Mexico + Texas + Oklahoma + Kansas

I am frustrated that this is not getting more coverage on Tumblr. If fires were effecting 9 states side by side by side, EVERYONE would know about it. We are having to bring in the military to help fight the fires because we just can’t do it with the thousands of people we already have.

PLEASE spread the pictures and the coverage of the fires and PLEASE send up positive thoughts and do whatever it is you do to make it rain. We need water out here. We NEED rainfall or else we are going to lose a lot more of Canadian forests and cities to fires this year. It is NOT looking good for us.