In 2016, a wildfire jumped the Athabasca River and headed straight for Fort McMurray ... their phones began ringing steadily: the fire had already made the news, and friends and family were ...

It is part of this world because we are, and we made it. Part of the reason this particular fire was so vicious is because like most modern houses, those in Fort McMurray were built almost ...

The speed at which this year’s fire near Fort McMurray chewed through the path ... The extended drought made up for the lack of fuel available to the fire, known as MWF-017.

The Alberta municipality governing the oilsands hub of Fort McMurray says residents ordered ... from the municipality says firefighters have made considerable progress since then.

“Our experience of fire occurs in the realm of the visible,” he writes, “but it is made possible by the ... gusting toward the small city of Fort McMurray. The city’s authorities had ...

The conditions, Vaillant writes, were “as conducive to fire as is possible anywhere on Earth.” The small fire was first spotted, in the forest southwest of Fort McMurray, at 4 p.m. on Sunday ...

In his new book "Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World," journalist and author John Vaillant tells the story of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire. That event may seem like old news ...

Alberta RCMP are investigating after a fire was intentionally set at a ... and July 6 at 145 Eagle Ridge Gate. A 45-year-old man, from Fort McMurray was arrested on Aug. 4, in relation to a ...

Winds have died down in some areas and shifted in others, pushing flames away from Alberta’s Fort McMurray ... made it difficult for firefighters to see as they battled “extreme fire behavior ...

The Environmentalist’s Dilemma author Arno Kopecky, left, caught up by phone with Fire Weather author ... Finally his family settled in Fort McMurray. It made me think of all the refugees ...