HISTORY
In 2021 this city saw the earliest blooming of the cherry blossoms in 1200 years?
What is Kyoto?
Firefighters refer to this housing exterior as "solidified gasoline".
What is vinyl siding?
With the exception of this geologic barrier it is possible to canoe several thousand miles across Canada.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This fuel became the baseline for the Lumen; the standard unit for light's brightness.
What is Spermaceti (whale oil)?
A merchant in the guise of a state.
What is Alberta?
It burned for 21 years, "a blast furnace in the wilderness", after being intentionally lit on fire in 1897?
What is a natural gas deposit near Fort McMurray that produced 8 million cubic feet of gas per day?
The number of minutes for a burning modern living room to explode into flashover.
What is three minutes?
Newfoundlanders in Ft McMurray in 2016, and "Rowdies and Roughs" in the 1886 Vancouver fire partook in this activity.
What are fire parties?
The number of tons of bituminous sand needed to make a single barrel of bitumen.
What is 2 tons?
The balance between prevention and panic.
What is the best way to prepare the public for a fire or a pandemic with imperfect information?
See also Fire Chief Idiot advice re the job.
This country is the world's third largest oil exporter.
What is Canada?
1/3 of American homes and over half of Canadian homes are located in this area.
What is the WUI?
"The WUI is everywhere now"
This activity involves harnessing 12 men to a barge loaded with tons of bitumen and driving the men upriver like sled dogs for 500 miles
What is Scow Tracking?
This process uses 1/3 of Canada's total production of natural gas (equivalent to 350,000 barrels of oil/day) solely for this purpose.
What is the separation of bitumen from sand?
The chance of anyone alive today experiencing a year as relatively cool as 1996.
What is "virtually nil"?
The number of months that the Fort McMurray fire burned before being declared extinguished.
What is 15 months?
This name is used by meteorologists to describe fire-borne thunderheads.
What are pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb)?
This piece of mining equipment weighs 800,000 lbs, is 3 stories tall, and it's tires cost $85,000 apiece.
What is a Caterpillar T797 hauler?
The percentage of CO2 absorbed in the oceans leading to acidification and the most rapid shift in ocean chemistry in the past 50 million years.
What is 30%?
The most consequential policy reversal in the history of human civilization.
What is the API's decision in 1984 to disband it's CO2 and Climate Change task force, and in 1989 to form the Global Climate Coalition GCC?
Peter Pond, the first European in this region of Canada, a bare-knuckle entrepreneur, twice-implicated killer, was given this description by a biographer.
What is a fist in the wilderness?
This occurs when the temperature in degrees Celsius exceeds the relative humidity, and the environment becomes fire's ally.
What is crossover?
This Persian King punished the sea by having it publicly whipped in the fifth century BCE.
Xerxes I
The leftover dirty residue from cracking heavy oil, including bitumen, "a pariah of the energy industry", one of America's biggest exports.
What is petcoke?
Peace, Order and Good Government as compared to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What are the national virtues of Canada vis a vie the United States?