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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world

Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, Canada. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.

Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.

Wow our forests are a mass murderer!

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Mother nature is displeased ….

The town is a stronghold of the Jihadi Abdelwahid rebels.

Afghanistan. A very awful Islamic country.

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‘Fire has always been political’: Why some are pushing back against restrictions in Atlantic Canada

Stay out of the woods. No hiking. No fishing. No camping. Don’t ride your ATV. These were the messages this past summer in Atlantic Canada, as provinces dealt with high temperatures and dry conditions.

But those restrictions caused friction in the region — and across Canada — which Eric Kennedy says shouldn’t be a surprise.

I’m a little surprised the CBC didn’t go all Covid enforcer on this.

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The Peaceful Fault: Canada’s Politeness Masks a Yukon Quake Waiting to Happen

A Crack Beneath the Rug

Canada’s reputation for unfailing politeness is like that neighbor you trust completely, the one you’d invite over to watch the game and have a beer, and you’d feel confident they wouldn’t take off with your favorite beer stein.

That same neighbor might harbor a secret, even him, that he might have a crack beneath his basement. Unseen, that is, until it opens up. That crack doesn’t disrespect your hospitality; it simply IS.

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Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’

With hundreds of wildfires burning out of control, Canada’s 2025 fire season is already the second-worst on record, as scientists report climate change is prolonging and exacerbating the burning, leading to more destruction, evacuations and smoke-filled skies.

More than 470 fires across the country are currently classified as “out of control”, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).

7,318,421 hectares of land in Canada have burned due to wildfires this year – close to 78% more than the five-year average of 4,114,516 hectares, according to the CIFFC’s latest data.

It used to be an ice age was the new normal.

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Canada’s wildfires may be impossible to extinguish?

The Albany Times Union headline read:

 Not so easy: Dousing the Canadian wildfires may not be possible.

It may not be possible to put out the Canadian wildfires?! Humans learned how to fly. Americans and Canadians have won two world wars.

Mankind has been to the moon and sent unmanned craft around the solar system — and beyond.

And Canada can’t put out a fire?

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3 miners trapped in northern B.C. mine, premier says

B.C. Premier David Eby has confirmed three miners are trapped underground in a mine in northern B.C.

The miners work at the Red Chris mine on Talhtan Nation territory near Dease Lake, B.C., about 420 kilometres west of Fort Nelson, B.C.

Two of the miners are from B.C. and one is from Ontario, the premier said at a news conference at the First Ministers meeting in Huntsville, Ont., Wednesday morning.

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Days after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing in one county

At least 161 people are still missing in a single Texas county four days after deadly and devastating flash floods hit parts of the state, Governor Greg Abbott said, as hope fades for survivors to be found.

The missing in the hard-hit Kerr County include five campers and a counsellor from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp located on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

At least 111 people have died in the disaster, according to the latest county-by-county tolls published by US media. More than 90 were in the Kerrville area.

Meanwhile in New Mexico

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Flash Flood New Mexico

h/t XC

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Texas floods death toll climbs to more than 100

The death toll from flash floods that struck central Texas on Friday has now climbed to more than 100 people and an unknown number of others are missing.

Search and rescue teams are wading through mud-piled riverbanks as more rain and thunderstorms threaten the region, but hope was fading of finding any more survivors four days after the catastrophe.

Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls’ summer camp, confirmed at least 27 girls and staff were among the dead. Ten girls and a camp counsellor are still missing.

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Camp Mystic death total rises to 27 after devastating Texas floods: ‘Our hearts are broken’

Camp Mystic announced a heartbreaking update Monday, confirming that 27 campers and counselors have now been confirmed dead in the devastating flash floods in Texas.

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” the camp posted on its website.

Camp officials said they’ve been in contact with local and state authorities “who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls.”

CNN reporter Pamela Brown, who attended Camp Mystic as a kid, ‘overwhelmed with emotion’ as she returns to cover deadly Texas floods

The Texas Flash Floods

As I write this, the death toll in the Texas flash floods now exceeds 70, with 12 people still missing, including 11 girls and one camp counselor. It is a heartbreaking and horrific tragedy.

Many have been quick to politicize the tragedy in an effort to support whatever agenda that they were promoting before the disaster — climate change, DOGE budget cuts, operations of the National Weather Service, the Biden Administration. The one political implication of the disaster that I’m ready to call for is to reassert the importance of establishing a U.S. Disaster Review Board, a case made here at THB by Mike Smith last March.

Today, I share some data and context on the event for those wanting to go beyond seeking to use tragic deaths in hopes of scoring online partisan points. Shameful.

h/t PA Cat

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Death toll in catastrophic Texas flooding rises to 51, including 15 children and 28 adults, officials say

The death toll in the devastating Guadalupe River flash flood in Texas has risen to 51 — including 28 adults and 15 children in Kerr County, officials said in a grim Saturday night update.

At least five of the dead — Renee Smajstrla, 8; Sarah Marsh, 8; Janie Hunt, 9; and Lila Bonner, 9, and Eloise Peck, 8 — were attending Camp Mystic, a Christian summer retreat for girls where 22 other campers were still unaccounted for.

Family members took to social media to post the heartbreaking news.

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