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Experts say Canada very vulnerable to massive wildfires

Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now. More than 12.5 million hectares of bushland have burned in Australia since October and prime forest-fire season is just now getting underway. Canada's worst year for forest fires burned about seven million hectares in 1995, while the average yearly amount burned is about 2.1 million hectares. Ed Struzik, a fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University, says Canada is just as vulnerable as Australia to massive fires. Struzik points to climate change, population growth and tree-killing pests in Canada's forests as reasons to be concerned. University of Alberta wildland fire professor Mike Flannigan says "climate change's fingerprints are all over these Australian fires." Flannigan adds climate change plays the same role in raising the risk in Canada 
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The Canadian Press
Unique identifier: CP16560756 
Legacy Identifier: b5b70e3d155b7431faa40d488f56c693d 
Type: Video 
Duration: 1m22s 
Dimensions: 1920px × 1080px     41.87 MB 
Create Date: 1/8/2020 6:10:00 PM 
Display aspect ratio: 16:9 
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