Massive Alberta blaze could take months to extinguish: fire officials [View all]

Massive Alberta blaze could take months to extinguish: fire officials

By John Cotter, The Canadian Press

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/05/07/fort-mcmurray-convoy-to-move-wildfire-evacuees-south-again.html

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“Unless we have a significant rain event of 100 millimetres of rain, we expect to be out fighting the fire in the forested area for months to come,” Chad Morrison with Alberta Wildfires told a media briefing Saturday afternoon.

“That’s not uncommon with such large fires.”

As for the city of Fort McMurray, he said he expected they would get a good handle on the situation “over the next coming month or two.”

There still is no timeline for any of the 80,000 evacuated residents to be allowed back into their homes, but the Alberta government has begun preliminary planning, though it stresses fighting the fire is still the first priority.



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