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

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 ...

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 ...

Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction is the biggest industry in the Fort McMurray region employing 13,200 people, or 32% of the local working population, according to a 2021 labor study by ...

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 ...

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo issued an evacuation alert Friday night, saying the fire was about 16 kilometres southwest of Fort McMurray and nearby Saprae Creek, but there was “no ...

A massive swathe of burned forest is seen as a wildfire designated MWF017 by the Alberta Wildfire Service, top right, continues to burn near Ft. McMurray, Alta., in a Saturday, May 11, 2024 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...