https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69 en-us 2020-10-20 15:12:12 UTC 2020-10-20 15:42:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f525.png santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845258456 1919 - Wood that been cut for the timber industry contributed to the quick-burning flames of the massive inferno. The fires were responsible for hundreds of people losing its home, as well as the deaths of at least 11 people.]]> 2020-10-20 15:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845258456 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845281814 2014 - a terrible fire ravaged through the forests of the Northwest Territories, a vast territory in northern Canada. The flames, which burned an area of over 3.5 million acres, were the result of over 100 separate fires that had broken out in the area.]]> 2020-10-20 15:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845281814 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845304561 1939 - In Victoria, Australia on January 13th, 1939, bush-fires were spurred on by drought conditions and heavy winds to create what came to be called the Black Friday Bushfire.]]> 2020-10-20 15:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845304561 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845309217 1989 - the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba was subject to terrible wildfires that spread over an astonishing 8 million acres. The flames from over 1,000 separate wildfires were responsible for thousands of evacuations across the province.]]> 2020-10-20 15:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845309217 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845313285 Increasing temperatures and the thawing permafrost in Siberia are the most likely cause of the growing number and intensity of forest fires in Siberia. Satellite images of the fire show Eurasia covered in smoke.]]> 2020-10-20 15:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845313285 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845323436 1950 -  The authorities allowed the fire to burn freely, following local forest management policy considering the lack of settlements in the region. The Chinchaga fire produced large amounts of smoke, creating the “1950 Great Smoke Pall”, observed across eastern North America and Europe.]]> 2020-10-20 15:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845323436 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845336114 2010 - Some of the blazes were so strong that firefighters were unable to get close enough to contain them. The head of Bolivia's forestry service, Weimar Becerra, described the fires as "a total disaster, it is an environmental disaster. We have six forest fires which have a height of 50 m and are growing, and as a country we do not have the capacity to put them out".]]> 2020-10-20 15:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845336114 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845351465 The fire burned over two days on the weekend of August 20–21, after strong winds caused numerous smaller fires to combine into a firestorm of unprecedented size. It killed 87 people, mostly firefighters, destroyed numerous manmade structures, including several entire towns, and burned more than three million acres of forest with an estimated billion dollars' worth of timber lost.]]> 2020-10-20 15:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845351465 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845366137 1939 - Fires burned land in Victoria, where 71 people were killed, and several towns were entirely obliterated. Over 1,300 homes and 69 sawmills were burned, and 3,700 buildings were destroyed or damaged. In response, the Victorian state government convened a Royal Commission that resulted in major changes in forest management.]]> 2020-10-20 15:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845366137 santiagoalvarez01 https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845375931 2011 -  Alberta government representatives have not pinpointed the source of the fire, but have stated that it was “almost certainly the result of human activity”. Several small fires were started in the region north of Fort McMurray on May 15. This was the same day that the destructive Slave Lake fire started to the west.]]> 2020-10-20 15:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/santiagoalvarez01/o5p2ezdilvfz3r69/wish/845375931