This has become a Canada wide effort. Dry year last year very dry winter this year, could be more serious fires in Alberta once this one is done. Hopefully no other serious fire starts whilst this one still burns. Comments from one university prof is that the location of starting point of the fire and the lack of lightning indicates man made as the source.
A buddies daughter works at a vet clinic in Fort Mac and has stayed behind to try and deal with some of the many pets let behind. The word is a lot of dogs running around.
Hard times for a lot of
