The beauty of the fediverse is that I don’t need to be in Canada to participate on a community on a Canadian instance. The short answer is that I’m not in Canada, and can’t speak to their specific strategy.
Broadly speaking though, wildland fires are typically fought by using a technique called backburning. That involves waiting until the weather eases somewhat and then lighting a fire in front of the main fire to burn back towards the main fire, creating a buffer zone of burned ground in front of it. This denies the fire new fuel to burn. The more favourable weather and the fact that the backburn is burning against the wind means that the backburn will typically be cooler and slower than the main fire, and hence more manageable.
This kind of strategy can take time though, and large fires can have huge perimeters to manage.
The beauty of the fediverse is that I don’t need to be in Canada to participate on a community on a Canadian instance. The short answer is that I’m not in Canada, and can’t speak to their specific strategy.
Broadly speaking though, wildland fires are typically fought by using a technique called backburning. That involves waiting until the weather eases somewhat and then lighting a fire in front of the main fire to burn back towards the main fire, creating a buffer zone of burned ground in front of it. This denies the fire new fuel to burn. The more favourable weather and the fact that the backburn is burning against the wind means that the backburn will typically be cooler and slower than the main fire, and hence more manageable.
This kind of strategy can take time though, and large fires can have huge perimeters to manage.
Thanks for the detailed reply!
It is kinda cool that there is actually a legitimate strategy to fight fire with fire haha! https://youtu.be/YkPhka2m_D0/&t=42s