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A large wildfire burned through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada and its surrounding area from May 14 to 16, 2011.The conflagration, which originated 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) outside of town as a forest fire, was quickly pushed past fire barriers designed to protect the town by 100-kilometre-per-hour (60 mph) winds.
Great Slave Lake [1] [a] is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), [2] and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.
Since March 1, 2019 when the wildfire season began in the Slave Lake Forest Area, 818.27 km 2 (202,200 acres) were burned and 79 wildfires reported. [39] By May 30 gusty north winds were causing the wildfires in the Slave Lake area to spread. [39] Wildfires SWF049 which started on May 18 is part of the McMillan Wildfire Complex.
Slave Lake is a town in northern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River No. 124. It is approximately 255 km (158 mi) northwest of Edmonton . It is located on the southeast shore of Lesser Slave Lake at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 88 .
Alberta: The largest Canadian fire since 1950. 2011: 156,293 acres (63,250 ha) Las Conchas Fire: New Mexico: Third largest fire in New Mexico state history. 63 homes lost. Threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory. 2011: 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) Slave Lake Wildfire: Alberta: Burned through Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada and its surrounding area ...
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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]
As of 7:15 p.m. PT, the fire had burned 566 acres and was at 0% containment, according to Cal Fire. The department said the blaze had a "dangerous rate'' of spread in an earlier update.