Lac La Biche Area Update

VERY HIGH Wildfire Hazard for Monday - Lac La Biche Forest Area

Posted on Sun, Jun 25, 2017

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The wildfire hazard is VERY HIGH for Monday.

Be careful in the forest tomorrow, as fires that start are expected to spread quickly given the strong and gusty winds. Warm temperatures and winds on the weekend were accompanied by lightning on Saturday. Some areas received rain with the lighting, but some areas didn't get any precipitation. We are patrolling those areas, on the lookout for holdover wildfires. Tomorrow is expected to see very warm temperatures of about 26 with humidity at 30%, no precipitation, and strong winds gusting to 50 km/hr. A low pressure area and a cold front are expected to cross later in the day on Monday, bringing cooler temperatures and lowering the wildfire hazard for Tuesday.

It is not safe to burn when winds exceed 15 km/hr.  Tomorrow's winds are going to be substantially stronger than that, so please, no burning! You need a permit for any burning other than a campfire.  Conditions for a safe burn are outlined on the back of your permits.

We have 12 crews, five helicopters and the air tankers on hand to action any new wildfires tomorrow.  We didn't have any new wildfires this weekend.

Thanks for doing your part to prevent wildfire.  

For more information, please contact:

Leslie Lozinski

Area Information Co-ordinator

780-623-9758