Crowsnest Fires
- 1. Crowsnest Fires A forest fire can create an atomic like explosion while it quickly covers a hillside with a 6 km wall of flame reaching 50m into the sky
- 2. survivor story At 10 a.m. authorities told Elaine Hurby to leave her home. Immediately. Hurby, left with her pets and drove about 20 km west along the valley and sat down on a rock ledge overlooking Crowsnest Pass. She watched the flames veer down on Hillcrest. “ I felt masochistic, sitting on the outcropping” Hurby recalls , “those flames were like a magnet”.
- 3. surviving the destruction In 2003 the Crowsnest fire blaze burned over 20,000 hectares of forest, affecting not only the timber industry, but also local businesses and tourism. Businesses that benefited like Spray Lake Sawmills, use a significant amount of the burnt lumber. However, salvage efforts depend upon the amount of root scorch and the cost to pursue the salvage. A burned area creates a future area for ecological diversity and allows for the development of rich undergrowth that wasn’t there before.
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