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Fire bans began in Alberta on February 20. [13] Beginning in mid-May, wildfires began to encroach on Fort McMurray, which had been devastated by fire in 2016. [14] [15] On the evening of May 10, the wildfire designated MWF017 was 16 km southeast of Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo had issued an evacuation alert. [16]
Beginning in March 2023, and with increased intensity starting in June, Canada was affected by a record-setting series of wildfires.All 13 provinces and territories were affected, with large fires in Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.
On July 26, Parks Canada revealed that 358 of the 1,113 structures within the Jasper townsite were damaged by the wildfire while all critical infrastructure such as the hospital, schools, and wastewater treatment plant were saved. [13] On July 27, the Municipality of Jasper released a map and list of addresses of the structures damaged by the fire.
Alberta is in the grip of 158 wildfire events of which 55 are out of contr. Wildfires raging through the northern part of Canada's Alberta have forced evacuations of three communities, a ...
The hot weather has made fire danger in Alberta extreme. More than 2,500 wildland firefighters are working in the province , which reported that 19,576 had been evacuated from the areas where ...
Scattered rains and even smoke cover cooled air temperatures and helped efforts to fight wildfires in Alberta over the weekend, officials said Sunday, while a new fire in neighboring British ...
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largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]