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The 2019 Alberta wildfires have been described by NASA as part of an extreme fire season in the province. [5] In 2019 there were a total of 803,393.32 hectares (1,985,228 acres), [1] [6] [7] [8] which is over 3.5 times more land area burned than in the five-year average burned. [9]
The current fire has grown to about 110 square kilometers (42.5 square miles) and remains out of control. Josee St. Onge, an Alberta Wildfire information officer, said wind is pushing the fire ...
Wildfires burning uncontrolled across the region include 433 in British Columbia and 176 in Alberta, more than a dozen of them in the area of Fort McMurray, an oil sands hub. The pipeline, which ...
Alberta Wildfire information Officer Josee St-Onge said the blaze grew significantly on Tuesday and noted winds from the southwest were gusting as high as 40 km/hr (24.8 mph).
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. [16]
On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes. [14] [7] Firefighters were assisted by personnel from both the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as other Canadian provincial agencies, to fight the wildfire.
Alberta is in the grip of 158 wildfire events of which 55 are out of contr. Wildfires raging through the northern part of Canada's Alberta have forced evacuations of three communities, a ...
Alberta wildfires may refer to: 2011 Slave Lake wildfire; 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire; 2019 Alberta wildfires; 2023 Alberta wildfires This page was last edited on ...