Fire threat eases near Canada's oil sands hub
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Wildfire evacuee Colin Guilder and his dog, Sheba, are pictured at a gas station and motel in northern Alberta the day after a wildfire caused the evacuation of communities on the southern edge of Fort McMurray, May 15, 2024.
The threat from a wildfire near Canada's oil hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, appeared to be easing Wednesday, a day after it forced thousands of residents to evacuate and stirred memories of a damaging blaze nearly a decade earlier.
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