The Caribou Lake Wildfire was discovered on May 26 on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. The Regional Municipality of Wood ...

Extreme heat, low humidity, and strong winds are expected to fuel a wildfire that has put a northern Alberta town under ...

Orders to evacuate in the face of surging wildfires continued to spread Thursday as hot, dry conditions fuelled forest blazes ...

Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for communities in remote northern Alberta as the province braces for another ...

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 ...

A fire ban has been declared for nearly all of northern Alberta after the wildfire situation in the province escalated ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 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 ...