{"id":104852,"date":"2022-07-08T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=104852"},"modified":"2022-07-13T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:56:28","slug":"sopfeu-records-fewest-june-fires-in-nearly-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sopfeu-records-fewest-june-fires-in-nearly-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial fire fighting agency records fewest June forest fires in nearly 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Quebec\u2019s provincial forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU recorded the fewest number of fires since they started collecting uniform statistics in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Only ten fires were recorded across the province\u2019s southern protection zone in June, affecting just 0.1 hectares of land. For the past 10 years, the average number of fires recorded in June is 87.7 over an area of \u200b\u200b10,007.7 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Morin, a prevention and communications agent with SOPFEU\u2019s regional base in Maniwaki, explained that much of the province experienced frequent showers and humid weather throughout the month that didn\u2019t allow for things to dry out.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-104852-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-June-stats.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-June-stats.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-June-stats.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Morin added that none of the fires recorded were in the Pontiac or Outaouais region.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-104852-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-Pontiac-and-Outaouais.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-Pontiac-and-Outaouais.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-Pontiac-and-Outaouais.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>In the Northern Zone, SOPFEU identified 12 fires that occurred during June 2022. Morin explained that in this zone, SOPFEU provides surveillance, but only fights fires that threaten communities or strategic infrastructure. Only two of these fires were subject to fire suppression activity.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-104852-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-northern-zone.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-northern-zone.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Clip-Melanie-Morin-northern-zone.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>The full interview with Morin is available below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Quebec\u2019s provincial forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU recorded the fewest number of fires since they started collecting uniform statistics in 1984. Only ten fires were recorded across the province\u2019s southern protection zone in June, affecting just 0.1 hectares of land. For the past 10 years, the average number of fires recorded in June&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":104864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[13902,956,1507,11263],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105610,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104852\/revisions\/105610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104852"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=104852"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=104852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}