five miles outside the young petro-city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small wildfire flickered and ventilated, rapidly expanding its territory through a mixed forest that hadn't seen fire in decades.

The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing.

The fire devastated Alberta's Fort McMurray in 2016 - about 10% of all structures in the town were destroyed. On a recent trip to visit his ill father in Newfoundland, Mr Pendergast bought a lotto ...

Changing weather patterns led local officials to order people in Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation to clear out. The fire has already forced more than 80,000 people to flee ...

A planned extension of Highway 686 would connect Fort McMurray to Alberta's northwest ... I witnessed and I witnessed the fire, 'the Beast.' I was evacuated with my family," Wood Buffalo Coun.