Fort Mac fire could burn for months; officials turn off city gas supply, form plan to return residents – Canadian Manufacturing
May 9, 2016
There still is no timeline for any of the 80,000 evacuated residents to be allowed back into their homes, but the Alberta government says it has begun preliminary planning
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta.—Fire officials are bracing themselves for a long fight against the blaze that devastated Fort McMurray and has eaten up more than 2,000 square kilometres of northern Alberta forest.
“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.
