Raphael on camera. Text on screen: ‘Raphael Chavardes, Research Scientist, Fire Risk and Resilience, Canadian Forest Service’
We have access to a system that's called the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.
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It allows us to monitor droughts,
A water bomber plane flying overhead over a section of forest, dropping a spray of water.
but also to offer seasonal forecasts of fire danger.
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The Canadian Forest Service
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offers its expertise to the national forestry sector.
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These research teams are collecting data
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and doing analyses with models that are consistently being improved so that we can understand phenomena like the weather conditions that are associated with specific fires.
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