By the time the first photos were released, the fire had already belched 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, much of it from burning cars and houses. The Fort McMurray Fire ...

The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing.

The fire has already forced more than 80,000 people ... There was some good news — Fort McMurray’s water treatment plant has been saved from destruction and Scott Long of Alberta Emergency said that ...

The fire devastated Alberta's Fort McMurray in 2016 - about 10% of all structures in the town were destroyed. On a recent trip to visit his ill father in Newfoundland, Mr Pendergast bought a lotto ...

The major difference there is scale. Fort McMurray, at the time of the fire, lost thousands of structures. When we compare, ...

Although Jasper’s recent summer wildfire nearly doubled the current L.A. fires, the Fort McMurray fire in 2016 was more than 17 times larger than even the Jasper fire. At its peak, the Fort ...

His terrifying account of the burning of Fort McMurray in 2016 ought to have served as a wake-up call. Here we are, nine years later and LA is ablaze. As Vaillant wrote about a huge fire in ...