A few late-season snowflakes flutter over Fort McMurray, ... Fort McMurray recovery from 2016 forest fire plods along. By. AFP. Published. April 29, 2017 ...

In 2016, a large forest fire jumped the Athabasca River and headed straight for Fort McMurray, a large oil town 600 miles south of the Arctic Circle. In this excerpt from “Fire Weather: A True ...

The 2016 fire, which covered about 579,767 hectares, did not reduce the forest to ash. It burned as a crown fire, racing from treetop to treetop.

Firefighters are battling a wildfire in Fort McMurray that prompted the closure of a section of highway. Alberta Wildfire says a wildfire designated as "MMD001" started earlier Friday in Fort ...

Fire restrictions were in effect for the High Level Forest Area and entire Fort McMurray forest area, where wildfire danger was extreme, Alberta's wildfire agency said. Fire restrictions limit ...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA (CTV Network) — A wildfire burning near Fort McMurray is expected to move away from the community on Wednesday. The MWF-017 wildfire near Fort McMurray is now 5.5 kilometres ...

In a notice late on Friday, the Alberta government said the wildfire danger is "extreme" in the Fort McMurray Forest Area and out of control at 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) in size. Sign up here.

As of Wednesday morning, the closest point of the fire was about 5.5 km from the Fort McMurray landfill on the southern outskirts of the community and 4.5 km from the intersection of highways 63 ...

An evacuation alert has been issued for Fort McMurray, Alberta, as an out-of-control fire rages southwest of the Canadian oil town, making it among the first actions ahead of the wildfire season.

A fierce wildfire burning outside Fort McMurray, Alta., has brought back memories of a vicious blaze, nicknamed The Beast, that tore through the oilsands hub in 2016. Here’s a look at the ...