24 June 1999
CBCNEWS reported on 24 June 1999, that a major brush fire has already consumed 150 hectares of land in Almonte, west of Ottawa. The fire broke out Wednesday and was fought by two water-bombing helicopters and an airplane. Firefighters from six other communities were fighting the blaze and smoke was visible in Ottawa, which lies approximately 40 kilometres far away. The fire was fed by fire preferential weather conditions, such as dry weather and strong winds.
Fig.1. Hotspot overview, 23 June 1999
(Source: FireM3)
Several vegetation fires were detected by OSEI with the NOAA-14 AVHRR HRPT satellites.
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Fig.2. The image shows heat signatures
and a smoke plume over Hudson Bay from areas of fire burning in Ontario on 23 June 1999.
(source: http://www.osei.noaa.gov/)
The above mentioned fire situation map can be directly accessed at the Fire Monitoring, Mapping, and Modelling (FireM3) Project website (the FireM3 project is a collaboration of the Canadian Forest Service and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing). Through the Map Link you can access daily hotspot images. An Internet Map Server, which is like a simple GIS running on the host computer, allows you to zoom in on any fire or other area of interest and view the image and map data at full (1km) resolution. You can also click on any fire and get information about that fire.
Saskatchewan Daily Forest Fire Situation Report (10:00 AM Wednesday, 23 June, 1999):
There are 32 forest fires burning in the province today.
16 fires have been extinguished in the past 24 hours.
4 new fires have been reported.
Total number of fires to date this year is 286.
Total to date last year was 458, FIVE year average is 309.
The whole report and further information can be accessed at the fire management website of Saskatchewan Environment and Resource Management (SERM).
The CANADIAN DAILY FIRE SITUATION REPORT shows further detailed information regarding the fire situation in Canada, which, however, will not be mentioned here in detail. We refer to the corresponding home page.