The week in fire
The most consequential fire developments, with fire numbers, status changes, and links to BC Wildfire Service information.
The Fire Aware briefing
Wildfire news, without the noise. Every Monday.
A five-minute briefing on the fires, smoke, policy, and preparedness stories that matter in British Columbia. Source-linked, plain-language, and built to leave you with one useful thing to do next.
Every Monday
5-minute read
BC first
AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
Launching soon. This is the Issue 001 outline. Signup and sending are not live yet; no email address is collected on this page.
What lands in your inbox
A calm read, not a feed dump.
The goal is signal: what changed, why it matters, and where to verify it. Four or five sections, no endless scroll.
Map room
A short map note — new incidents, growth, containment — plus a link to the live Detection Map rather than a stale screenshot.
Smoke & air
Environment Canada alerts, air-quality trends, and practical smoke guidance. Official alerts stay the primary source.
Prep & policy
Evacuation readiness, community funding, land-management decisions, and research that changes how people prepare.
One clear takeaway
One small, concrete action — check a go-bag, review an evacuation route, replace a filter — not a list of everything.
Subject line preview
Monday · 07:00 PT
What moved this week — and what to do about it
Good morning. Here is the short version of what changed across British Columbia this week, with the links you need to check it yourself.
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The week in fire
A new fire of note, a containment update, and one decision that affects how crews are resourced next week.
02
Map room
Two incidents changed status. Open the live map for current perimeters and evacuation information.
03
Smoke & air
Where smoke is likely to drift, what the nearest air-quality readings show, and when to trust an official alert over an app.
From feeds to inbox
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Sunday
Gather
The weekly news pass pulls from the existing Fire Aware aggregator: BCWS, ECCC, NASA FIRMS, and BC/Canadian news feeds.
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Sunday
Draft
AI turns the source set into a structured first draft. Numbers, names, and links stay attached to their sources.
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Monday
Review
An editor checks claims, removes speculation, and holds the issue if a feed or source is unavailable.
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Monday
Send
Resend delivers the issue from the Render background worker. A run ledger prevents a restart from sending twice.
What we will not do
- Link to primary sources whenever a claim can be checked.
- Separate official alerts from our summary. The newsletter is not an emergency channel.
- Disclose AI assistance and keep a human review gate before send.
- No unverified scanner chatter, sensational fire imagery, or invented numbers.
- No selling or sharing subscriber addresses. Unsubscribe will be one click.
The delivery stack
Built on infrastructure the site already runs.
No new news API is required for the first version. The same aggregation, AI, and mail paths that power Fire Aware can produce and deliver the weekly issue.
- NewsExisting
/api/newsaggregatorBCWS active fires, ECCC alerts, NASA FIRMS detections, BCWS reports, and a fan-out of BC and Canadian RSS feeds. - DraftGemini, server-sideStructured JSON with a fixed issue outline, source list, and a hard rule against unsourced claims.
- MailResendThe existing Fire Aware mail provider. One request per subscriber or a small batch, with List-Unsubscribe headers.
- ScheduleRender background workerA Monday job in the persistent worker, recorded in a run ledger so a restart cannot double-send.
Sending is intentionally disabled until double opt-in, unsubscribe, bounce handling, and the review gate are shipped. This page is the outline, not the live subscription flow.
Help shape Issue 001
What would make Monday useful for you?
Send a story tip, a source we should follow, or the one question you want answered about wildfire readiness in BC.