Scenes from inside Fort McMurray: Eye-stinging smoke, scorched earth and the non-uniformed arrested on sight – Calgary Herald
FORT MCMURRAY, AB – There’s a reason that sleep-deprived woodland firefighters begin to see forest fires as a sentient, intelligent foe.
The Fort McMurray fire is moving underground. It is smoldering in peaty forest floors for days, only to explode to the surface like a hand grenade. It will sweep along a wide front, or fan out into unpredictable guerilla assaults.
It has demolished people’s home, but left their car unscathed just to prove that it can. The fire has burned through the rear fences of homes, only to fizzle out a few metres from the back door like some kind of sick “I’ll be back” threat.
