{"id":67598,"date":"2024-04-26T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67598"},"modified":"2024-04-26T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:38:31","slug":"wildfire-season-roars-to-life-in-parts-of-b-c-and-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67598","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire season roars to life in parts of B.C. and Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wildfire season roars to life in parts of B.C. and Alberta<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The 2024 wildfire season roared to life across Western Canada this weekend as crews battled multiple out-of-control blazes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

Multiple fires broke out across Western Canada this weekend amid a persistent and severe drought affecting British Columbia and Alberta.<\/p>\n

B.C. fire crews are working to extinguish several out-of-control fires in the Cariboo Fire Centre, while officials issued an evacuation alert for some neighbourhoods in northern Alberta amid a new out-of-control blaze that sparked near Fort McMurray on Sunday.<\/p>\n

CANADA’S WILDFIRES: Visit\u00a0<\/b>The Weather Network’s wildfire hub<\/a>\u00a0to keep up with the latest on the active start to wildfire season across Canada.<\/b><\/p>\n

Several B.C. fires burning out of control<\/b><\/h3>\n

The B.C. Wildfire Service reported an out-of-control wildfire on Saturday about 45 km south of Quesnel.<\/p>\n

\"BC<\/span>The fire quickly spread from 50 hectares on Saturday to more than 1,600 hectares by Sunday evening. Officials suspect the blaze, named the\u00a0Burgess Creek Fire<\/a>, was sparked by human activities.<\/p>\n

Provincial fire officials reported\u00a0more than 120 active wildfires<\/a>\u00a0across B.C. by Sunday evening, the vast majority of which are considered \u2018holdover\u2019 fires still smouldering from the previous season.<\/p>\n

Seven of the ongoing fires are considered out of control, while three more are\u00a0being held by crews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evacuation alert issued for community in Alberta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crews in\u00a0neighbouring Alberta<\/a>\u00a0responded to a wildfire spreading near Fort McMurray late Sunday afternoon. The out-of-control blaze southeast of the city is one of more than a dozen active wildfires in the province that crews are working to extinguish.<\/p>\n

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Local officials issued an evacuation alert for the Saprae Creek Estates \u201cdue to the potential of the nearby wildfire spreading towards the community,\u201d the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo\u00a0posted on its website<\/a>\u00a0Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wildfire season roars to life in parts of B.C. and Alberta The 2024 wildfire season roared to life across Western Canada this weekend as crews battled multiple out-of-control blazes Multiple fires broke out across Western Canada this weekend amid a persistent and severe drought affecting British Columbia and Alberta. B.C. fire crews are working to […]<\/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":[1082,103,9297,4849],"class_list":["post-67598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-the-weather-network","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598","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=67598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67599,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions\/67599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}