Tag: Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley

City at epicenter of Canada fires ‘virtually intact’

FORT MCMURRAY , Canada (AFP) — The center of the city at the heart of the forest fires raging through Alberta’s oil sands region remains “largely intact” even though outlying neighborhoods have suffered serious damage, the authorities said Friday. Fort McMurray’s downtown area “is largely intact, the hospital is still standing, the telephone center is intact and the water treatment center is back up and running,” Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley told reporters during a news […]