| Story ID: | 5009 |
| Written by: | Michael Timothy Smith |
| Story type: | Photograph |
| Location: | Halifax Nova Scotia Canada |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Person: | Residents of Halifax |
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My Birth Town on Fire
My mom lives a couple miles from the fires and
Thursday (04/30/09) night could see the glow in
the sky
She’s in an urban setting. The fire didn't spread
to her
What you see burning is mostly park land. Some of the areas are large properties, like those that burn in
California. Those are the houses affected – 8 destroyed and more than a dozen damaged so far
There was a Cat 3 hurricane that went through this area 5 years ago.
The forests are full of dead trees that are fuelling it. At one point, the fire was moving at 100 feet per minute
On Friday (05/01/09), they got a little rain and finally got the fire under control
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