Alberta Wildfire expecting temperatures to cause intense fire activity
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A wildfire burning northeast of Suncor's Firebag oilsands site is growing but not significantly closer to the infrastructure, according to Alberta Wildfire.
A wildfire burning northeast of Suncor's Firebag oilsands site is growing but not significantly closer to the infrastructure, according to Alberta Wildfire.
MWF047 was about 13,000 hectares big as of Monday morning.
Eight kilometres northeast of the Suncor site, and 70 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray, it is the largest and only out-of-control blaze in a group of fires the province is responding to jointly.
More than 200 people are working in the area. Twenty helicopters are assigned there, as well as three dozen heavy equipment teams.
On Monday, crews will be maintaining and building containment lines on the west and south sides of MWF047, where wildfire activity has been growing more aggressive.
The other area of concern over the weekend was north of John D'Or Prairie, Garden River and Fox Lake in northern Alberta.
The largest of several fires in this area, together named the Semo complex, is HWF061, a 16,300-hectare blaze burning out of control 38 kilometres northeast of Jon D'Or.
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