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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 ...
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 ...
Map In July 2024, a wildfire complex developed in Jasper National Park in Alberta , Canada . Fires formed north and south of the resort town of Jasper and grew out of control, and on July 22 they forced a mass evacuation of 25,000 residents, workers, and visitors.
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]
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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The NWS forecast predicts that Park Fire smoke will generally head north and east, affecting communities such as Redding and Red Bluff. The current forecast runs to Sunday. Park Fire smoke forecast
The province of Alberta had 306 wildfires early in the season, which was 100 wildfires above historic averages and was the first indicator of an early and above normal forest fire season. [19] Higher than normal winter and early spring temperatures in Alberta, as well as low precipitation averages across all the Western Canadian provinces was ...