Except that
1. the vast majority of forest fires in Canada are started by lightning strikes.
2. Canada did not have strict lock-down rules like much of the world; going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey do
1. the vast majority of forest fires in Canada are started by lightning strikes.
2. Canada did not have strict lock-down rules like much of the world; going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey do
Canada is big. The covid rules were by province. Quebec in the east had lockdowns, but the fires discussed in the article are in the west.
If so, going off in the woods was one of the things you could definitey not do.