{"id":20515,"date":"2016-05-08T08:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20515"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:04:36","slug":"welcome-to-hell-the-giant-fort-mcmurray-fire-is-the-worst-blaze-in-canadian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20515","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Fort<\/a>The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed \u201cthe Beast<\/a>\u201c, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New York City.\u00a0 88,000 people have already been forced out of their homes, at least 1,600 buildings have been destroyed, and smoke from the fire has been spotted as far away as Iowa.\u00a0 To say that this is a \u201cdisaster\u201d is a massive understatement.\u00a0 Northern Alberta is \u201ctinder dry\u201d right now, and authorities say that high winds could result in the size of the fire doubling by the end of the weekend.\u00a0 One-fourth of Canada\u2019s oil output has already been shut down, and the edge of the fire is now getting very close to the neighboring province of Saskatchewan.\u00a0 This is already the most expensive natural disaster in the history of Canada, and officials fully expect to be fighting this blaze for months to come.<\/p>\n

At this point, only rain is going to stop this fire.\u00a0 Canadian authorities insist that they are not going to be able to defeat this raging inferno no matter how many resources they throw at it.\u00a0 The best that they can hope for is to try to steer it away from heavily populated areas until the rain comes.<\/p>\n

Nobody knows precisely how this tragedy is going to end, but everyone agrees that it is going to last for quite some time.\u00a0 According to\u00a0the Washington Post<\/a>, this fire has the potential to keep on burning \u201cfor months\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

The images are ones of devastation \u2014 scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground.\u00a0And Canadian officials say they expect to fight the massive wildfire that has destroyed large parts of Alberta\u2019s oil sands town for months<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Welcome To Hell: The Giant Fort McMurray Fire Is The Worst Blaze In Canadian History The gigantic wildfire that has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta has been nicknamed \u201cthe Beast\u201c, and mainstream news reports are telling us that it is now approximately 25 percent larger than New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1082,103,13763,13764,3316,5983,7953,13765,13766,13767,13768,4901,567,568,7764,13769,8607,4849],"class_list":["post-20515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-canadas-oil","tag-canadian","tag-disaster","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-fort-mcmurray","tag-fort-mcmurray-fire","tag-hell","tag-homes","tag-iowa","tag-michael-snyder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-saskatchewan","tag-the-beast","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20515\/revisions\/20517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}