Fort McMurray and the neighbouring community of Saprae Creek Estates have been put on alert for a possible evacuation due to a wildfire raging in the area. The Regional Municipality of Wood ...

This past winter may have been snowier and wetter than last season, but the wildfire risk for April and May is considered ...

About a fifth of homes have been destroyed in Fort McMurray, a Canadian city ravaged by a huge wildfire, the local MP has told the BBC. A huge wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – An out-of-control wildfire has forced about 700 people from their homes near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. Emergency officials issued a mandatory evacuation order ...

2016 in Fort McMurray, Canada. Wildfires, which are still burning out of control, have forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents from the town. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images ...

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A smartphone app has been released by the government of the Canadian province of Alberta to let people evacuated from the fire-hit town of Fort McMurray to see satellite images of their homes.

Steve Hewlett: How do you live every day as if it's your last? In May 2016, residents of Fort McMurray in Canada were evacuated due to a raging wildfire. The chief of Fort McMurray's fire ...

In 2016, the Fort McMurray wildfire – known as “the Beast”- forced the evacuation of nearly 90,000 residents. “A spark can light a raging inferno,” says Univ. of Alberta wildfire expert ...