Wildfires are in the headlines again. Last year they blazed across the West, Alaska and Canada, burning more than 9.8 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. As the American Lung Association notes, people were not only forced to flee their homes — smoke from fires in the north and west also threatens the lung health of Americans thousands of miles away.
The Canadian federal government said Sunday that it would help British Columbia shelter and house displaced residents as raging wildfires forced thousands to evacuate.
We need the U.S. and Canadian governments to fund, support and open the door to exploring new ways to shut down fire and smoke faster. Never before has there been a certified EPA Safer Choice fire inhibitor that can lay a safe, ground-applied chemical fire break along the side of a road. This Safer Choice product has outperformed the fire retardants the U.S. and Canada now use against wildfires and the smoke they create. Both the chemical and the giant atomizing cannon are available in the U.S. and Canada today. From the roadside, the chemical is blown up into the trees and onto ground vegetation before the fire arrives.
Ask the San Bernardino fire marshal or the Ventura County Fire Department how fast this Safer Choice fire inhibitor shut down their controlled burns — the product was bone dry, just waiting to stop the fire. This is not a matter of hoping moisture will stall a fire’s advance, the way an aerial drop does. Applied in advance, this Safer Choice fire inhibitor is highly effective at slowing even a wind-driven wildfire.
