Fire services have taken stock before the Yukon fire season

Whitehorse’s firefighters, Travis Whiting, and the Yukon Forest Forest Management section, represented by Keith Fickling, told city council that the two fire services train jointly to prepare for summer.

Keith Fickling told the municipal council that the Yukon forest fire management section has deployed its workforce a force in the southern lakes region. According to him, the staff who have completed his preparation are ready to intervene in the event of a fire.

The advisers had several questions for the two services, and many of them concerned the Whitehorse firewall system.

Keith Fickling has notably said that, so far, the weather has not been favorable enough for the forest fire management section to be able to carry out preventive directed burning.

In April, the Yukon protection services made public areas in which preventive directed burning will be carried out:

• la Range Road au sud de Whistle Bendles
• The trails south of Porter Creek
• Long Lake Road in the northwest and on the other side of the river from Whistle Bend
• The surroundings of the Alaska road
• Hidden lakes south of Riverdale
• The grip of boulevard Robert Service
• Camp Boyle near Lake Mary
• Le north you quartier de takhini a face you copper king

Keith Fickling also talked about work on the firewall system. The work carried out on the latter should be completed in two years in the areas of Copper Haul and Lake Mary. Those on Mount Sima should take another three years.

The Southern Klondike firewall has received the green light from the Yukon environmental and socioeconomic evaluation office (Yesab). Keith Fickling explained that the next step is to reopen the old roads and the area of ​​the area so that you can pass vehicles and facilitate travel.

He adds that, this summer, the forest fire management section plans to plant 230,000 tremors in the firewall areas that have already been treated.

Arduous forecasts

Keith Fickling was more evasive in his assessment of what the summer could look like, saying that there was no drought in the fall and that the precipitation was normal this winter. However, he noted that the months of March and April were less watered than usual. It also seems that the month of May will be quite dry.

We will see what we will bring in summerhe said, sighing.

Advisor Dan Boyd asked if the winds that blow on the city recently are normal, to which Keith Fickling replied that they are not so different from what the history of the surveys reveals.

It seems that the area has always been relatively windy, but personally, I think the wind blows stronger than usual. However, this is not based on any scientific dataKeith Fickling replied.

Whitehorse’s firefighters, Travis Whiting, thanked Keith Fickling and the forest fire management section for work done with city services during the fire season, as well as for the location of risk areas.

We really rely on local knowledge, rather than national alert bulletins, or even western Canada. We have identified what are the areas likely to burn, under what weather conditions and the topography of the premisessaid Travis Whiting.

With Canadian press information