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

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 ...

More than 30,000 people in Canada have been evacuated due to wildfires, and millions of acres have burned — and it's only the ...

And Fort McMurray – also known as “The Maritimes West” – wasn’t designed to survive a fire tearing into that community, which ...

An illegal campfire caused a grass fire that temporarily closed a section of highway near Fort McMurray late last week, fire investigators said Monday. Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo ...

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

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.