This footage was filmed and produced 8 June 2021.

Near the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Border on the NUmber one Highway. As grass fires start resulting from sparks on train tracks, the old railway ties also burn sending toxic smoke into the air and other toxins into the ground of farmland from the burning chemicals used to treat the railway ties burns or flushes into the ground from water used to extinguish the flames. Railways should be forced to remove the old railway ties as they are replaced instead of stacking them in piles along side the tracks.

Over the past several years, Canada has seen a major increase in the number and scale of wildfires. 2023 is shaping up to be a record setting year. Currently we are only one week into June and have surpassed 50% of land burned in the history of Canadian wildfire recordings. Wildfires raging in Canada