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88,000 Evacuated as Canada Wildfire Consumes Whole Neighborhoods
May 4, 2016
Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ ct-canada-wildfire-oil-sands-town-20160504-story.html
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A raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, Alberta, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed.
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About 88,000 residents successfully evacuated as flames moved into the city surrounded by wilderness in the heart of Canada’s oil sands. No injuries have been reported.
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said all 105 patients at the local hospital had been safely airlifted to other care centers. She said, so far, the fire had destroyed or damaged an estimated 1,600 structures.
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Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box.
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Danielle Larivee, Alberta’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, said the province has declared a state of emergency and said the fire is actively burning in residential areas. Over 200 firefighters are battling the blaze. Fatalities have been reported from a collision on a nearby highway but she was unaware if it was related to the evacuation.
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“This is a nasty, dirty fire. There are certainly areas of the city that have not been burned, but this fire will look for them and it will find them and it will want to take them,” Fort McMurray Fire Chief Darby Allen
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Officials estimated the fire at 7,500 hectares (18,500 acres) and said they expect it to worsen Wednesday as strong winds and high temperatures “create explosive conditions.”
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Firefighters were working to protect critical infrastructure, including the only bridge across the Athabasca River and Highway 63, the only major route to the city in or out. All commercial flights in and out of Fort McMurray have been suspended. Flames are being kept from the downtown area thanks to the “herculean'” efforts of firefighters, said Scott Long of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency.
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“It’s a possibility that we may lose a large portion of the town,” Long said.
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley called it the biggest evacuation in the history of the province. Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale called it one of the largest fire evacuations in Canadian history, if not the largest. “It’s a community of 88,000 people that’s been totally evacuated,” Goodale said. “This is going to take a while to recover.”
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said while the full extent of the damage isn’t yet known he called it “absolutely devastating” and said there’s a loss on a scale that’s hard to imagine. Trudeau said he’s offered the province his government’s full support. He encouraged Canadians to support friends and donate to the Red Cross.
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MAY 4 2016, 7:02 PM ET
Fort McMurray Wildfire:
‘Nasty, Dirty Fire’ Burns Over 18K Acres as More Homes Are Lost
by ERIK ORTIZ, ALEX JOHNSON, JACQUELLENA CARRERO and MATTHEW JOHNSON
NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/
fort-mcmurray-wildfire-nasty-dirty-fire-burns-over-24k-acres-n568046
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The Canadian province of Alberta was under a full state of emergency Wednesday as a catastrophic wildfire continued to devour neighborhoods in Fort McMurray, where 80,000 residents were safely evacuated, officials said.
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By Wednesday afternoon, the fire had scorched about 18,500 acres, said Scott Long, executive director of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency. By mid-evening, it’s expected to hit more than 24,700 acres just about the size of the island of Manhattan, Long told reporters.
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Authorities earlier had cited higher numbers in both cases 88,000 people evacuated amid a fire of about 25,000 acres. The reports were revised as better information became available, they said.
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Still, “this is a nasty, dirty fire,” Fort McMurray Fire Chief Darby Allen said, warning that while some areas of the city hadn’t been burned, “this fire will look for them, it will find them, and it will want to take them.”
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Bernie Schmitte, wildfire manager for the Fort McMurray Wildfire Management Area, said there was still danger from “very high temperatures, low relative humidities and some strong winds.” The high temperature at 3 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) was 83, a record for May 4, following a record high of 90 on Tuesday.
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Danielle Larivee, Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs, said the provincial cabinet declared a state of emergency Wednesday afternoon to centralize decision-making and allocation of resources. One of the first decisions was to allocate emergency funding of $2 million (US$1.55 million) to the Red Cross to support evacuees directly, she said.
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Bernie Schmitte, wildfire manager for the Fort McMurray Wildfire Management Area, said there was still danger from “very high temperatures, low relative humidities and some strong winds.” The high temperature at 3 p.m. (5 p.m. ET) was 83, a record for May 4, following a record high of 90 on Tuesday.
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Danielle Larivee, Alberta’s minister of municipal affairs, said the provincial cabinet declared a state of emergency Wednesday afternoon to centralize decision-making and allocation of resources. One of the first decisions was to allocate emergency funding of $2 million (US$1.55 million) to the Red Cross to support evacuees directly, she said.
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Some residents had just a half-hour to pick up their belongings and leave in what Alberta Premier Rachel Notley called the biggest evacuation in the history of the province, one that involved tens of thousands of people at the same that 1,600 structures were being destroyed.
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More than 250 firefighters, helicopters and air tankers remained in the area a day after long lines of cars filled highways to get out of town. Burning debris could be seen falling onto the roads as walls of smoke and fire filled the distance. A boil water advisory was issued for the entire region.
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Smoke from the fire was easily visible from space from the Landsat 8 satellite.
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Firefighters, meanwhile, were working to protect critical infrastructure, including the only bridge across the Athabasca River and Highway 63, the only major route to the city in or out.
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Fort McMurray Area Update
Fort McMurray Wildfire Update – May 4, 2016
Posted on Wed, May 04, 2016
http://srd.web.alberta.ca/fort-mcmurray-area-update
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The wildfire in the Fort McMurray area (MMF-009) remains out of control and has burned approximately 7,686 hectares.
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Alberta Emergency Alert has issued mandatory evacuation for the City of Fort McMurray. Evacuation information can be found at
http://emergencyalert.alberta.ca/alerts/2016/05/3714.html
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There are firefighters, aircraft and heavy equipment working on the wildfire and more resources are on their way.
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Anyone with resources looking to help with the Fort McMurray wildfire can send their information to GOAPOC.Logistics@gov.ab.ca. They are taking resource inquires via email and will follow up with you.
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Residents should tune into local media for updates. Residents can call the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo for information at 780-762-3636.
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Canada wildfire: Much of Fort McMurray ‘could be destroyed’
BBC News US and Canada
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36207807
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‘Catastrophic fire’
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“Bad news does not get better with time,” said Scott Long, executive director of Alberta’s Emergency Management Agency.
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“It is a possibility that we may lose a large portion of the town,” he added.
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Fire services said high winds and hot temperatures would make Wednesday an “even worse day” than Tuesday.
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Bernie Schmitte, an official at Alberta’s Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, said the “catastrophic fire” had so far “resisted all suppression methods”.
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After flying over the burning city, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the blaze had moved north and east across Fort McMurray.
If the winds behaved as predicted, she added, the blaze would move into the Thickwood and Timberlea communities, as well as the area around the airport.
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Officials said the size of the blaze was now 7,500 hectares (29 sq miles) and it was being tackled by 100 firefighters. Wednesday would “again create explosive conditions”, they said.
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Help from the army and air force is being sent to Fort McMurray but may take two days to arrive.
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The chief of Fort McMurray’s fire department, Darby Allen, said: “It’s a nasty, ugly fire and it’s not showing any forgiveness.”
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He said staff had worked through the night and all structural fires within the city were extinguished, but he added that other areas were still at risk.
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‘We got a town to come back to and rebuild’: In Anzac, locals dig deep to help evacuees
By Vincent McDermott
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2:01:27 MDT PM
Fort McMurray Today
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2016/05/04/we-got-a-town-to-come-
back-to-and-rebuild-in-anzac-locals-dig-deep-to-help-evacuees
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Fort McMurray is empty, inhabited only by firefighters and police officers. Its 88,000 residents are scattered across the province, living in evacuation centres, hotels, cars and with loved ones.
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As of Wednesday morning,1,600 structures have been destroyed. Almost nothing remains of Beacon Hill, which suffered 80 per cent loss. Abasand has suffered a 75 per cent loss and 50 per cent of Waterways Fort McMurrays oldest neighbourhood is gone. Thirteen trailers in Timberlea have been lost, as have 30 homes in Wood Buffalo. In the morning, the fire was 10,000 hectares in size and efforts to douse the flames have failed.
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At a press conference from a fire hall on Airport Road in Fort McMurrays southern half, Mayor Melissa Blake spoke through tears as she reached out to the displaced.
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Be the brave people that I know you are, she said.
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Anzac, a rural hamlet with a population of 700 and approximately 50 kilometres south of Fort McMurray, was quickly overwhelmed with 8,000 confused and disoriented people fleeing the flames. An evacuation centre quickly opened at the communitys recreation centre. But trucks carrying cots from Edmonton ran into the gridlock clogging Highways 63 and 881; they did not arrive until 3 a.m.
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Only 2,500 to 3,000 people could squeeze into the building. Anyone else that showed up was directed to one of the work camps dotting Highway 881.
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If you came here, we made sure you were not homeless, said Darryl Woytkiw, the hamlets former fire chief who was coordinating the evacuation efforts.
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Almost everyone you see here is a resident of Anzac, giving their time, he said. Local businesses are providing all the food and water they can. Nexen, ConocoPhillips and the other nearby oilsands sites have been fantastic.
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Fort McMurray Blaze, Fast and Unpredictable, Keeps Firefighters at a Distance
By IAN AUSTEN
MAY 4, 2016
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/world/ americas/fort-mcmurray-canada-fire.html
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Wildfire forces evacuation of Canada’s Fort McMurray
Massive blaze sweeps through oil sands region and prompts biggest evacuation in the history of Alberta state.
04 May 2016 06:07 GMT
Canada, Environment, US & Canada
Aljazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/wildfire-forces-
evacuation-canada-fort-mcmurray-160504051556984.html
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Up to 90,000 evacuated from Fort McMurray; state of emergency declared
CARRIE TAIT, JEFF LEWIS, JEFF JONES AND ANDREA WOO
The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, May 04, 2016 1:08PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, May 04, 2016 8:07PM EDT
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/alberta/
fort-mcmurray-burns-this-is-a-nasty-dirty-fire/article29862009/
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The toll
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As of late Wednesday afternoon, the 7,500-hectare fire had destroyed about 1,600 buildings.
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There was about a 90 per cent loss of homes in Waterways, according to the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. In Beacon Hill, the figure was 70 per cent; in Abasand, 50 per cent.
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Chad Morrison, manager of wildfire prevention, said late Wednesday afternoon the fire continues to expand outside on the borders and the edges of the fire at this time.
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A highway closure on Tuesday forced most evacuees to drive north, away from major cities. By Wednesday morning, the highway had reopened, but fuel had run out, stranding evacuees seeking to drive out of Fort McMurray. Albertas transportation department said it was escorting a fuel tanker north to help stranded drivers.
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Gail Gallupe, president of the McMurray Mis, said the local offices of the 300-member aboriginal group were razed by the fire. She was given 10 minutes by authorities to collect items from the building early on Tuesday morning.
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But conditions then were fair, so she went to a scheduled meeting at a nearby hotel before heading home. By 11:30 a.m., she could hear sirens from emergency vehicles from her condo on Gregoire Drive. She ran outside.
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Honest to God, the fire and the flames and the heat and the smoke was just billowing towards us, she said Wednesday. She packed a bag with some documents, her passport, and a few clothes, not a lot, she said. It was 8 p.m. when she finally fled the smoke-filled city, heading to the community of Anzac, which was overrun with evacuees. She kept going, arriving in Athabasca, about 300 kilometres to the south, four hours later.
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I have never seen a fire go so quick in my life, but the conditions were ripe. Everything was dry as tinder here, she said by phone. We were kind of nonchalant yesterday morning, thinking we would be back in the office today. Then all hell broke loose.
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The outpouring of support
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People are doing everything they can to help those affected by the ravaging fire. All across social media, people are showing support, with offers of food and water, clothing, fuel, and a place for families and their pets to stay.
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WestJet transported supplies into Fort McMurray, leaving with whomever needed transportation out of town, including several mothers and newborn babies fleeing the local hospital. Telus is waiving all additional call and text charges for Fort McMurray customers until May 17.
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Airbnb has consolidated free accommodations for those displaced by the fire and is waiving all fees for those affected by the disaster until May 21.
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The domestic and commercial delivery service Big Ds Delivery has been supplying residents with food, water, and fuel.
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