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A wildfire that pressured 1000’s of residents from their houses in western Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray earlier this month is now underneath management, Alberta officers mentioned Wednesday.
Alberta wildlife officers mentioned the blaze stays lower than six kilometers (3.7 miles) from the neighborhood and is about 190 sq. kilometers (118 sq. miles) in dimension.
CANADA BATTLES WORST-EVER WILDFIRE SEASON, AS NORTH AMERICA ENGULFED IN SMOKE
A firefighter displays a pump in a river mattress used for wildfire sprinklers within the evacuated neighborhood of Grayling Terrace in Fort McMurray, Alta., Thursday, Could 16, 2024. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press by way of AP)
About 6,600 residents in 4 neighborhoods have been ordered out for a number of days as fierce winds whipped flames near the neighborhood.
The remainder of these within the metropolis of 68,000 have been instructed they could have to depart on brief discover. Those that have been instructed to depart have been in a position to return days later.
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The reason for the hearth remained underneath investigation.
For some, the blaze introduced again troublesome recollections of 2016, when wildfires pressured a mass evacuation of the town and burned greater than 2,000 houses.
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