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 […]