The wildfire threat has escalated in and around Fort McMurray, and many people are posting pictures and video as they flee the northern Alberta city. As the night progressed, the evacuation order was expanded and officials were urging people to be calm.

Fuel shortages and heavy traffic snarled the evacuation of all 80,000 residents from the western Canadian city of Fort McMurray on Wednesday as a wildfire raged out of control, destroying much of one neighborhood and badly damaging others.

Canadian officials will start moving thousands of people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray in a mass highway convoy Friday morning if it is safe from a massive wildfire raging in Alberta. Officials airlifted 8,000 people on Thursday and will…

A convoy of evacuees began the long drive out of work camps north of the fire-ravaged Fort McMurray area Friday morning.

A raging Canadian wildfire grew explosively on Saturday as hot, dry winds pushed the blaze across the energy heartland of Alberta and threatened to burn close to an oil sands project.

Hamodia spoke with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Matusof, head shaliach of Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta, Canada, to learn more about the devastating fires there. He explained: “There is no Chabad House…Read more »