00:00 It's been Canada's summer from hell. A fire season raging since April is still breaking
00:09 records and leaving lives in ruin.
00:11 I lost my home, I lost my vehicles, I lost all my tools.
00:17 Canada's thrown everything it has at the inferno and called in an international force of firefighters,
00:24 5,000 strong to assist.
00:27 Cure.
00:28 They've brought expertise and spirit from all corners of the globe.
00:34 Australia has sent one of the biggest contingents, 650 in all, with the latest group flying out
00:40 for Canada later this week.
00:42 It's been thick, dense smoke for days. Every day you get back in you take a big deep breath
00:47 and go, "Oh, I made it."
00:49 Hailing from a dozen countries, crews here consider themselves one family.
00:56 Every life lost hits hard.
00:59 Unfortunately there was a loss of a firefighter. That's an opportunity to reflect on that and
01:05 acknowledge her contribution.
01:08 The days are long, up to 15 hours on a fire ground where blazers can burn underground
01:15 through a layer of peat.
01:17 It's slow, dangerous, back-breaking work in really hard to reach and difficult terrain.
01:24 Scientists say climate change made Canada's extreme weather this year twice as likely
01:29 and 20 to 50 per cent more intense.
01:33 We need to do more. We need to do it faster and we also need to be better prepared to
01:39 face the impacts of climate change because we have entered the era of climate change
01:44 and climate impacts.
01:46 Impacts Australia knows well and will confront again, possibly soon, with large parts of
01:52 the country on high alert for spring.
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