They have deployed 59 firefighters and 14 heavy equipment to this wildfire. Alberta Wildfire and Parkland County are working together on this wildfire. The wildfire has not seen much growth in several days. Īnother wildfire in the Edson Forest Area is WCU-001, which spans an area of 6,284 hectares (15,528 acres) and is under control.
Currently, the active fire area is 201,885 hectares (498,869 acres). In response, firefighters from all over the globe have arrived to fight the fire. The fire danger has been low recently but continues to threaten Edson and other nearby communities. It is being held and has caused multiple evacuations for residents in Yellowhead County. In the Edson Forest Area, wildfire EWF-031 is roughly 1.5 km (0.93 mi) south of Edson.
These wildfires are in the Edson, Grande Prairie, High Level, Rocky Mountain House, Slave Lake and Whitecourt districts. Wildfires Īs of 13 May 2023, there were 13 wildfires of note in Alberta. On May 6, the province of Alberta declared a provincial state of emergency. Multiple communities have been placed under evacuation orders, resulting in over 29,000 people being evacuated. This May 20 situation includes 91 active wildfires throughout the province, 25 of them out of control.
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The 2023 Alberta wildfires are a series of ongoing wildfires in the province of Alberta, Canada as part of the 2023 Canadian wildfires, as of 20 May 2023 have burned over 842,000 hectares (2,080,627 acres). Sentinel-3 satellite image of the wildfires in Western Canada at on May 20, 2023ħ45 (109 currently active, of which 19 out of control) ġ,200,000 hectares (2,965,265 acres) in total
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