Tag: Canadian wildfires

Flare-ups, thick smoke from Canadian wildfires delay residents’ return

  MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Thick smoke and a risk of flare-ups are delaying residents’ return to fire-ravaged Fort McMurray in Canada, the province of Alberta’s premier said Monday. “There’s active fire growth on all fronts surrounding the community and a number of hotspots within the town,” Premier Rachel Notley told a nationally televised press conference. Elsewhere in the province new forest fires broke out over the weekend for a total of 15 separate blazes, three […]