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The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing.

Although Jasper’s recent summer wildfire nearly doubled the current L.A. fires, the Fort McMurray fire in 2016 was more than 17 times larger than even the Jasper fire. At its peak, the Fort ...

A MASSIVE, raging wildfire forced the evacuation yesterday of three more communities south of Canada’s main tar sands city Fort McMurray, in Alberta. Changing weather patterns led local officials to ...

The fire devastated Alberta's Fort McMurray in 2016 - about 10% of all structures in the town were destroyed. On a recent trip to visit his ill father in Newfoundland, Mr Pendergast bought a lotto ...