Holy Molly this is scary stuff for them, hoping they get it under control and out soon.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...-evacuations-more-firefighters-called-in.html
Nearly 30,000 Fort McMurray residents forced to flee
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Fort McMurray Alberta Wild Fires
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Holy Molly this is scary stuff for them, hoping they get it under control and out soon.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...-evacuations-more-firefighters-called-in.html
Nearly 30,000 Fort McMurray residents forced to flee
Yeah the floods were horrible!
Yikes. I hope everything gets sorted.
Yikes. I hope everything gets sorted.
What a tragedy. My thoughts are with all the affected people.
CBC is reporting that 80,000 people have been evacuated, and 1,600 homes and buildings have been destroyed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-cut-off-as-wildfire-closes-highway-63-1.3566310
CBC is reporting that 80,000 people have been evacuated, and 1,600 homes and buildings have been destroyed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-cut-off-as-wildfire-closes-highway-63-1.3566310
I just made a donation to the Red Cross.
Here's a link if you want to help
https://donate.redcross.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1951&ea.campaign.id=50610
Here's a link if you want to help
https://donate.redcross.ca/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1951&ea.campaign.id=50610
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I plan on doing that as well. Every little bit helps.
I plan on doing that as well. Every little bit helps.
I just talked to my dad (in Omaha, NE) and he says that people there - this is all the way down in NEBRASKA - can smell the smoke from these fires. 
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Yikes!
I live in Calgary. We aren't in danger, we don't see the smoke, but we're housing hundreds of refugees and coordinating donations of food and essentials as best we can. North of us in Edmonton, there are thousands more displaced, and the outpouring of support is immense. This whole thing is scary and yet inspiring at the same time. It's a miracle that no one was killed by the fire itself, and the only two deaths were on the highway with a couple kids who may have been a bit too zealous in their panic getting out of town.
Red Cross donations are the preferred method of help. A few years back in 2011 there was another huge fire around Slave Lake (dwarfed by this one), but the response of donated *stuff* was so overwhelming, they ended up dumping tons of perfectly good diapers, food, supplies, clothing, and toys into the landfill because there was nowhere to put it and the local agencies were overwhelmed. Other resources were taxed moving it when they should've been using actually useful stuff, like fresh water.
This time they're really telling people exactly what is needed and simply to donate money otherwise so the Red Cross can use it most efficiently to buy and deliver what's needed most in the best time. Most people are listening this time, thank goodness.
Mark
Red Cross donations are the preferred method of help. A few years back in 2011 there was another huge fire around Slave Lake (dwarfed by this one), but the response of donated *stuff* was so overwhelming, they ended up dumping tons of perfectly good diapers, food, supplies, clothing, and toys into the landfill because there was nowhere to put it and the local agencies were overwhelmed. Other resources were taxed moving it when they should've been using actually useful stuff, like fresh water.
This time they're really telling people exactly what is needed and simply to donate money otherwise so the Red Cross can use it most efficiently to buy and deliver what's needed most in the best time. Most people are listening this time, thank goodness.
Mark
