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The fire has move past Fort McMurray, Canada. It still blazes at almost 5,900 square kilometres but it no longer threatens life and limb in this Canadian town. There are still over 1000 firefights working hard to battle the blaze but it has been labelled contained. For the next few months the battle will continue …
Continue reading Rising like a Phoenix
Fires rage in Western Canada. May has only begun and it seems the long dry summer is already here. Every year it's the same, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest lost unknown numbers of animals dead or displaced. Towns evacuated and then ravaged by walls of unstoppable fire. Fort McMurray is big in the …
Continue reading The Shadow Fire Casts
One of the hardest things about living so far away from home is that I learn a lot about life happening to my family via Facebook. Today I have learned that Fort McMurray, Alberta, an oil boom town in Canada, has been evacuated due to forest fires. This worries me for a number for reasons. …
Continue reading Wild Fires in Alberta
