'Every year is going to be a bad fire year': wildfire expert | Power & Politics
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As of Monday, nearly 22,000 people across British Columbia have been ordered to evacuate their homes, while 11,000 have been told to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. The Bald Range fire is one of the latest blazes among more than 600 fires burning across the country. But what is it about Canada's wildfires that make them particularly difficult to fight? Power & Politics speaks to Mike Flannigan, a B.C. Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C. This show is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app: https://link.mgln.ai/A2q4qn »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: https://www.cbc.ca/news Follow CBC News on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cbcnews Subscribe to CBC News on Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3leaWsr Subscribe to CBC News on WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/channe
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