Three months after wildfires ripped through the suburban area northwest of downtown Halifax and a decade after a report from Dalhousie University ...
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The report should identify and prioritize a list of communities that border or interface wildland areas and that require additional emergency evacuation routes and dry hydrants. Halifax regional firefighter Adrian Sweet walks between the intact playset and a destroyed home on Bonsai Drive in Hammonds Plains in the wildfire aftermath on June 6. - Tim Krochak / The Chronicle Herald
Mason said Halifax Fire Chief Ken Stuebing commented during a bus tour of the affected areas in the aftermath of the fires that vinyl siding on homes catches fire in 20 seconds during wildfire conditions.“That’s an expense. That’s a cost but it’s cheaper than the kinds of damage we saw and that we are going to continue to see. We’re going to see this more and more, it’s accelerating.
“I encourage the province of Nova Scotia to step up into a joint committee with the municipality to ensure that we can work with them, and if there’s legislative changes needed … that should happen.”
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