Here’s your fire season forecast

Can a weekly fire weather outlook help Canadian communities learn to live with fire? Mike Flannigan, wildfire forecaster and professor at Thompson Rivers University, thinks so. A weekly forecast is one of the things that gives him hope that people across Canada can be better prepared to respond to wildfire risk this summer as conditions start to look like “Dante’s circles of hell.” Then – we hear how the Abegweit First Nation has a new deal with the P.E.I. and federal governments to make its own decisions about managing emergencies like wildfire.