A new app has been launched to track forest fires not only in northwestern Ontario but Ontario, Canada and the whole world.
Fire Fringe is free to download and provides updates twice a day on fires in the region.
Phil Green helped develop the app and says they really wanted to promote it given the recent situation in Red Lake.
“We have programmers that designed the app and just want to get it out into the public’s hands this year to help them deal with forest fires which, fortunately have not been very frequent in Canada,” says Green.
“We have been working on this for the past 14 months or so and then the pandemic hit we thought ‘Let’s get a free app in the hands as quickly as possible’.”
Green says the map is a bit different from the one used by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, because it shows fire hots spots, just where a forest fire is located.
