{
  "id": 11429646,
  "title": "Why are B.C. firefighters still using wildfire data from the 1990s?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/why-are-b-c-firefighters-still-using-wildfire-data-from-the-1990s",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-02T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bc-wildfire-data-1990s-9.7361848"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Prolonged drought in B.C.'s Southern Interior has led to explosive wildfires that current modelling software struggles to predict. It's partly because the data that informs these computer models was collected at least 30 years ago, when extreme fire behaviour, driven by events like prolonged drought — a feature of climate change — was less common.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}