Briitish Columbia Burning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Briitish Columbia Burning write by Bethany Lindsay. This book was released on 2018-05-30. Briitish Columbia Burning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2017 was the worst wildfire season in British Columbia history. As early as July 7, the province declared a state of emergency as upwards of 200-plus separate fires raged across the province. More than 45,000 people were forced to leave their homes and plumes of black smoke could be seen as far away as Victoria and Calgary. In British Columbia Burning, Bethany Lindsay uses words and images to follow firefighters, evacuees and those who stayed to save their communities in what was B.C.'s worst wildfire season ever.
British Columbia in Flames
British Columbia in Flames - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Columbia in Flames write by Claudia Cornwall. This book was released on 2020-09-19. British Columbia in Flames available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like many British Columbians in 2017, Claudia Cornwall found herself glued to the news about the disastrous wildfires across the province. Her worry was personal: her cabin at Sheridan Lake had been in the family for sixty years and was now in danger of destruction. Cornwall, a long-time writer, was stricken not just by her own experience, but by the many moving stories she came across about the fires—so she began collecting them. She met with people from BC communities of Sheridan Lake, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, 16 Mile House, Lac La Hache, Quesnel, Williams Lake, Hanceville-Riske Creek and Clinton. She hoped to be a conduit for the voices she heard—for those who fought the fires raging around them, those who were evacuated and displaced, and those who could do nothing but watch as their homes burned. She conducted over fifty hours of interviews with ranchers, cottagers, Indigenous residents, RCMP officers, evacuees, store and resort owners, search and rescue volunteers, firefighters and local government officials. Presented in British Columbia in Flames are stories that illustrate the importance of community. During the 2017 wildfires, people looked after strangers who had no place to go. They shared information. They helped each other rescue and shelter animals. They kept stores open day and night to supply gas, food and comfort to evacuees. This memoir, at once journalistic and deeply personal, highlights the strength with which BC communities can and will come together to face a terrifying force of nature.
Slashburner
Slashburner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slashburner write by Nick Raeside. This book was released on 2020-09-19. Slashburner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nick Raeside worked at many jobs in the logging business but the one that he specialized in was starting fires—small, (hopefully) controlled fires used to clean up logging slash or debris-laden sites left after the merchantable timber had been removed. It was a crude way of reducing fire hazard and clearing the ground for replanting, and there was a constant danger that the controlled burns would get away and become real wildfires, destroying millions of dollars’ worth of standing timber. Raeside found this challenge irresistible. In Slashburner, Raeside recounts many hilarious anecdotes from his career in the woods during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, when he and his slashburning crews rampaged throughout southeastern BC armed with drip torches, chainsaws and explosives. They lit fires. They put some of them out. They survived rockslides, animal encounters and flare fights. Slashburner is a rollicking tale, capturing the good old times in the logging business, when danger and excitement were the order of the day and almost everyone you met was a memorable character.
Awful Splendour
Awful Splendour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awful Splendour write by Stephen J. Pyne. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Awful Splendour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fire is a defining element in Canadian land and life. With few exceptions, Canada's forests and prairies have evolved with fire. Its peoples have exploited fire and sought to protect themselves from its excesses, and since Confederation, the country has devised various institutions to connect fire and society. The choices Canadians have made says a great deal about their national character. Awful Splendour narrates the history of this grand saga. It will interest geographers, historians, and members of the fire community.
Captured by Fire
Captured by Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Captured by Fire write by Chris Czajkowski. This book was released on 2019-09-28. Captured by Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued to cause lightning strikes, starting new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Over two hundred fires burned in the province and nearly ten thousand people in or around the towns of 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Princeton and Williams Lake received the instruction YOU MUST EVACUATE NOW. But not everyone left. Captured by Fire alternates between the dramatic first-person accounts of wilderness dweller Chris Czajkowski and homesteader Fred Reid, who both ignored the evacuation order and stayed to protect their properties, animals and livelihoods. Living in a remote area, they knew that their homes would be of low priority to officials when fire fighting resources were deployed. Over the course of the summer, as alerts fluctuated and even the firefighters pulled out, both had to decide: when is it time to go?
