The summer hasn't even officially begun and our fires this year arent more numerous - they're just more devastating both in loss of land and homes. 10,000+ people evacuated for a week now.

I will be buying a Class C motorhome this summer, specifically for both camping AND bugging out in case of fire or flood. I've already gone thru a flood, and dont want to go thru a fire evacuation. How awful for all those people.

Paradise Valley(?) my apologies if that's the wrong name, in CA where the water table now is corrupted, from the benzine and other contaminants from just the homes burning, and the fire response to extinguish it, LAST YEAR.. Such awful destruction.
Canadas got so much pristine timberland, Crystal clear lakes, and great people. Hang in there please.

Take to put it out? Rain storms just result in more lightening and more fires.

Especially where there is deep dry bogs/muskeg type undergrowth. Not only does the fire ravage the woods, but, the fire itself can go DEEP into the ground and smolder, only later to rekindle. The northern states, and Canadas vast wilderness, have this as an added PIA when trying to douse fires. That's a lot of acreage. Canada has shown itself to be very adept at putting these fires out. They can definitely be protracted though. Lot's of variables obviously. Hang in there.
As I recall, when the winds whip up, fires can skip over EIGHT football fields within a few seconds. That's so dangerous for obvious reasons. Happens especially in valleys and ravines, as I recall from seeing coverage of CA fires year after year. That's a formidable foe.

that they had put out in the morning. By the time i kayaked there by chance the smoke was rising from the whole area. Not alot. Just enough that i could see the smoke. Someone from far away probably could not see the smoke and all the other cottages were far away at the time. Lucky i was there. Went and told my uncle and he put it out. Don't know how one would put out a fire that deep. I had kayak leg freeze so i could not get out of the kayak and help.

As long as theres a wisp of O2...they can linger for quite some time.

of oxygen that far underground. Our parents always warned us of the underground fire hassard when we camped on the nearby island and had the rare campfire ourselves so I knew what it was when I saw it. I just could not get out of the kayak myself and put it out.