Massive Canadian Wildfire That Ravaged Fort McMurray Continues To Burn

Meera Dolasia
2016-05-11T08:06:29-07:00

On Sunday, May 1 shortly after 4 pm, a crew from the Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Department reported a wildfire in the vicinity of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. Though the fire, which was labeled MWF-009 because it was the ninth such blaze encountered this season was similar to the previous ones, it concerned firefighters more for two reasons.