The Fort McMurray Fire Department have responded to two fires this week that were caused by people who did not extinguish ...

As the IJF reported last week, the Fort McMurray Search and Rescue Society had its charitable status revoked by the Canada ...

Fire threatening Fort McMurray could burn for weeks, maybe months Published on May. 17, 2024, 4:00 AM As welcome rain arrives, officials warn that the flames will be difficult to tame ...

And so, Fort McMurray evacuating last week — the fire doubling in size over 24 hours, a lot of that doubling in the wrong direction, toward town — this is just what happened in May 2016.

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 ...

More than 88,000 people were evacuated from Fort McMurray in May 2016, when a wildfire destroyed more than 2,400 buildings and caused an estimated $3.8-billion in insured damage.

John Vaillant interweaves the May 2016 fire in Fort McMurray with a history of climate science in his new book, Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. Photo of John Vaillant by John Sinal.

Caption: Wildfire specialists with Fire & Flood Emergency Service Ltd., pictured along Highway 881 near Gregoire Lake Estates southeast of Fort McMurray on Wednesday. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian ...