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2 men arrested for arson in different fires south of Fort McMurray
With the spring wildfire season is underway, two men were arrested this week after a house was torched and grass fires lit along a road in a rural community south of Fort McMurray.
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Two charged with arson after home, grass fires on Chipewyan Prairie First Nation
Timothy Herman, 41 of Janvier (also commonly referred to as Chard) and Brian Cardinal, 54, of the Chipewyan Prairie First ...
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'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season
JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper’s SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled ...
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Whistler Blackcomb Foundation fuels Whistler’s firefighters
The Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS) is preparing to roll out a new addition to its emergency fleet—a wildland fire truck ...
Jasper readies for slower summer tourism as it continues recovery from 2024 wildfire
Jasper, Alta., is preparing for summer tourism, as the town continues to recover from a monster wildfire that ripped through ...
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Is Vancouver at risk for urban wildfires like those that hit L.A.?
The West Coast Fire: Coexisting with Urban Wildfires in ... says fires like those that destroyed Slave Lake (2011), Fort McMurray (2016) and Lytton (2021) “should have been wake-ups for ...