five miles outside the young petro-city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small wildfire flickered and ventilated, rapidly expanding its territory through a mixed forest that hadn't seen fire in decades.

Changing weather patterns led local officials to order people in Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation to clear out. The fire has already forced more than 80,000 people to flee ...

Although Jasper’s recent summer wildfire nearly doubled the current L.A. fires, the Fort McMurray fire in 2016 was more than 17 times larger than even the Jasper fire. At its peak, the Fort ...

The fire devastated Alberta's Fort McMurray in 2016 - about 10% of all structures in the town were destroyed. On a recent trip to visit his ill father in Newfoundland, Mr Pendergast bought a lotto ...

Foreboding weather forecasts are keeping tensions high in Los Angeles as one of North America's largest cities battles ...

The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing.

Fire Weather is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.

That’s why fire safety consultant Alan Westhaver takes us on a tour through the neighbourhoods of Fort McMurray, a year after the fire. “There are lessons in the ashes,” he notes.