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By Thomas I. Likness in Edmonton & Marvi Abellera, in Slave Lake, Alberta EBC Edmonton Bureau EDMONTON (Eagle News) – As dawn breaks over the town of Slave Lake in the western Canadian province of Alberta, dense smoke fills the air. The town’s nearly 7,000 residents hope they won’t be waking to a nightmare they lived through eight years ago. In 2011, a raging inferno forced everyone to leave and destroyed about one-third of […]
By Thomas I. Likness EBC Edmonton Bureau EDMONTON (Eagle News) – A sense of déjà vu hangs over the northern Alberta town of Slave Lake as the provincial government has issued an evacuation alert for the community as wildfires continue to consume the region’s forests. Eight years ago the town’s 7,000 residents had to leave as a raging inferno destroyed about one-third of the community’s homes. Residents were told Thursday to be prepared to leave […]
By Thomas I. Likness in Edmonton & Marvi Abellera in Slave Lake, Alberta EBC Edmonton Bureau (Eagle News) – More bad news for residents of the northern Alberta community of High Level in western Canada which is threatened by a wildfire. An Alberta government agency said a shift in wind direction could push the blaze even closer to the town. The fire remains out of control. It is only three kilometres from the town limits. […]
By Thomas I. Likness EBC Edmonton Bureau (Eagle News) — About five-thousand residents of a northern Alberta town have been ordered out of their homes as flames from an out-of-control wildfire threaten the community. Evacuation centers have been set up in several communities to give temporary shelter to those who fled with little more than the clothes on their back. Many others are staying with relatives. Premier Jason Kenney told a news conference Tuesday that […]
