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Oilsands companies evacuate workers, reduce production due to northern Alberta wildfires
Some oilsands producers are removing workers and shutting production from their sites as wildfires rage in northeastern ...
Alberta's wildfires disrupt some 7% of Canada's oil production
By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY (Reuters) -Wildfires burning in Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta have affected more ...
Fort McMurray Today5d
Conklin residents warned to prepare for potential evacuation due to wildfires
The Caribou Lake Wildfire was discovered on May 26 on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. The Regional Municipality of Wood ...
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Wildfire in Fort McMurray briefly closes section of Highway 63
Firefighters are battling a wildfire in Fort ... in Fort McMurray and has grown to 10 hectares. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) firefighters are responding to the fire and Alberta ...
Outside2y
When the Fire Came for Fort McMurray
On a hot afternoon in May 2016, five miles outside Fort McMurray, a small wildfire flickered to life, rapidly expanding through a forest that hadn’t seen fire in decades. Its growth coincided ...
The Globe and Mail1y
Fort McMurray fire moved more quickly than expected, official says
The speed at which this year’s fire near Fort McMurray chewed through the path ... according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. The 2016 fire, which covered about 579,767 hectares ...
CityNews Edmonton5d
Most of northern Alberta under fire ban as some communities forced to evacuate
A fire ban has been declared for nearly all of northern Alberta after the wildfire situation in the province escalated ...
KTVZ1y
Winds expected to move fire away from Fort McMurray on Wednesday: Alberta Wildfire
In addition, an off-highway vehicle restriction will be implemented for the Fort McMurray forest area. Under an OHV restriction the recreational use of OHVs is prohibited.” The fire ban replaces ...
The Weather Network1y
Fort McMurray wildfire remains volatile but weaker winds expected to ease danger
Four Fort McMurray neighbourhoods — Beacon ... As of Wednesday morning, the fire had consumed nearly 21,000 hectares of forest, after almost doubling in size the day before, and moved closer ...
The Washington Post1y
‘Fire Weather’ is a gripping narrative and a loud wake-up call
“The citizenry of Fort McMurray discovered that their city ... to face a situation that neither was equipped to handle: a forest fire in a city. Responders were forced to devise new strategies ...
Reuters1y
Fire-threatened Fort McMurray: Why is it so important to Canada's oil industry?
The 2016 fires destroyed large parts of Fort McMurray and shut in more than a million barrels per day (bpd) of crude production. The city of around 70,000 people is surrounded by boreal forest and ...
The New York Times1y
Book Review: ‘Fire Weather,’ by John Vaillant
The small fire was first spotted, in the forest southwest of Fort McMurray, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 1. When it didn’t quickly sputter out, it was given an impersonal code by firefighters ...