The Fort McMurray Fire, destined to become the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, continued to burn, not for days, but for months. It would not be declared fully extinguished ...

The Fort McMurray Fire, destined to become the most expensive natural disaster in Canadian history, continued to burn, not for days, but for months. It would not be declared fully extinguished ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The oilsands hub city of Fort McMurray, Alta., got a watery reprieve from a menacing wildfire Thursday as steady rain fell and water cannons delivered a ...

The MWF-017 wildfire near Fort McMurray is now 5.5 kilometres from the city’s landfill, two kilometres closer than it was on Tuesday afternoon. The fire is 4.5 kilometres from the Highway 63 and ...

Roughly 90,000 people evacuated Fort McMurray and its surrounding communities in 2016 and the race to safety clogged highway 63 south through the night as residents escaped.

The fire, which started last week, caused about 6,600 residents to flee parts of the southern end of Fort McMurray. The rest of the city remains on evacuation alert.

Fort McMurray residents still see these images in our dreams, even though it’s been seven years since an out-of-control wildfire forced us to evacuate our city. The wildfire story continues long after ...

Therese Greenwood, who wrote a book on the Fort McMurray fire, says the trauma continues once evacuees return home. Photo by crystal mercredi / jpg A slow-motion escape on the only road out of town.

The book to read first is “ Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World ” (Alfred A. Knopf, released on June 6). It’s an eloquent, comprehensive, and thoroughly referenced look at the catastrophic ...

Fire Weather, by John Vaillant (Knopf). In 2016, a wildfire ripped through the oil town of Fort McMurray, in Alberta, hot enough to vaporize toilets and bend a street light in half.

Conversely, because of the nature of Fort McMurray’s largest industry, the NDP is reluctant to use the fire as a cautionary tale about the impact of man-made climate change.