SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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- Summer temperatures increase 50%
- Bushfire season length 50%
DID YOU KNOW?
“ZOMBIE FIRES”
Just because a fire isn’t spreading across the ground doesn’t mean it’s dead. It could be burning underground, where decaying organic material called peat can keep it alive for months or more.
This obviously presents a serious danger, since a fire that is contained and supposedly beaten in the summer can, theoretically, survive underground during the winter and spread again when conditions become hot and dry again.
“Even after the flames die down, the fire has a good chance of hiding underground, smoldering through the winter and sprouting back up as a wildfire next spring”
In mid-2014, seven fires in Canada’s Northwest Territories ducked underground and resurfaced in 2015,
Source: Mike Flannigan. Wildfire professor at University of Alberta.
FACTS & FIGURES
