#alberta wildfires

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Evacuation order issued in First Nation threatened by northern Alberta wildfire | CBC News

Some residents of the Dene Tha' First Nation in northern Alberta have been forced to leave their homes as a wildfire moves closer to the com

Some residents of the Dene Tha' First Nation in northern Alberta have been forced to leave their homes as a wildfire moves closer to the community. A critical evacuation order was issued by the Alberta Emergency Management Agency late Friday night for the community of Chateh, Alta., formerly known as Assumption, 91 kilometres northwest of High Level, Alta. Emergency officials said in the alert that a wildfire burning southeast of Chateh, near Basset Lake, is burning north toward the community. "Everyone in Chateh must evacuate immediately," the alert said. "Gather medication, documents and supplies to be away from home for seven days or more." It is the third time this summer that residents have had to flee from wildfires.

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[beverage-cowboy]

Loving the smoke smell today!! This totally has nothing to do with the amount of people out “sick” today and the “virus” going around my brothers school! How long has Canada been on fire again??

[charlesleclarinet]

the americans complaining abt the wildfires causing smoke is actually driving me insane. bitch my stepsisters cabin nearly burnt down, i have family in every province with severe wildfires and i’m an asthmatic living in alberta. stop blaming us and help jesus

[malsperanza]

The sky is a uniform yellow and I can't see the water tanks on the roofs across the street. The air is oddly fragrant, like sandalwood joss sticks. The city is very quiet, as if we were all finally coming to a deep realization about the scale of the impending disaster we have made. These fires are two thousand miles away. In my mind's eye I see the forests burning, the wildlife gasping, cinders in our lungs, our eyes, our hearts.

Years ago I remember something similar: when Chernobyl exploded and the news leaked out. Some lab in Scandinavia noticed the spike in radiation. Then the days of waiting, the weeks, and eventually the news that all of Europe was downwind from The Cloud. The Cloud was invisible - it did not have the pleasing scent of sandalwood - but it was going to cause people with asthma to die. It was going to cause cancer. It was going to force crops to be destroyed. No one could eat lettuce or drink milk that year.

And then, fifteen years later, another day here in my city, when the sky was a limpid and dazzling blue, perfect visibility for miles, not today's ominous yellow, and two planes crashed into the towers downtown. First the column of black smoke rising and spreading like the hand of Sauron, then the stench - not sandalwood, but the melting plastic of ten thousand pieces of crappy office furniture, fiberglass insulation, carpeting, corpses.

[missykind]

Back home in the Rocky Mountains… went to the Columbian Ice field and the scary Skywalk! Was glad to get home but the smoke was eerie and made me want to go back to the mountains!

[missykind]

Back home in the Rocky Mountains… went to the Columbian Ice field and the scary Skywalk! Was glad to get home but the smoke was eerie and made me want to go back to the mountains!

[trichergraphicdesign]

Pretty dang smoky in Edmonton today… those buildings in the distance were perfectly clear 2 days ago…

[beverage-cowboy]

The smoke that looks like fog encompassing my entire town was not on my 2023 bingo card