2007 Slowest Forest Fire Season In Recent Memory

Tuesday, September 04, 2007 at 15:01

 

 

It was a quiet summer for forest fires in northern Saskatchewan this year.

 

As of August 31st, just 362 blazes had been reported in the province.

 

That’s 116 fewer blazes than last year, and well down from the 10-year average of 600.

 

The director of the provincial fire centre in Prince Albert, Alvin Reimer, says he has never seen a summer this calm in his 30 years on the job.

 

Reimer adds most of this year’s fires were either found in the Far North, or in a block of land stretching between Pinehouse, Stony Rapids and the Saskatchewan-Manitoba boundary.