In 2016, a wildfire jumped the Athabasca River and headed straight for Fort McMurray, an Alberta oil town 600 miles south of the Arctic Circle. In this excerpt from ‘Fire Weather: A True Story f ...

Favorable winds were expected to push the fire away from the city of about 68,000 in northwest Canada, where many residents earn a paycheck from the nearby oil industry. The Fort McMurray fire ...

The small fire was first spotted, in the forest southwest of Fort McMurray, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 1. When it didn’t quickly sputter out, it was given an impersonal code by firefighters ...

The history of fossil fuels, 21st century fires and a look at our future with climate change are topics in this year’s One ...

The threat from a wildfire near Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing on Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories ...

At noon on May 3, the fire chief in the oil town of Fort McMurray was on TV telling everyone that the situation was in hand and they should stay at work and school and go to little league or ...

The MWF-017 wildfire near Fort McMurray is now 5.5 kilometres from the city’s landfill, two kilometres closer than it was on Tuesday afternoon. The fire is 4.5 kilometres from the Highway 63 and ...

Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada’s oil sand hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, were ordered to evacuate with a wildfire threatening the community ...

No injuries have been reported after Fort McMurray firefighters stopped flames spreading across backyards in Thickwood after a shed caught on fire on Tuesday morning.

Police are investigating a house fire south of Fort McMurray that left one person dead. Wood Buffalo RCMP say that on June 12 ...

Favorable winds were expected to push the fire away from the city of about 68,000 in northwest Canada, where many residents earn a paycheck from the nearby oil industry. The Fort McMurray fire ...