The west side of the fire grew by nearly 21 kilometres (Friday) to the west and to the northwest. Today, a unit crew from Australia arrived on-site and this evening they will be working through the night in the community of Ansell to apply structure protection apparatuses.
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“So in layman’s terms, everything between Marlboro and the Nojack Road for Yellowhead County residents is in the evacuation zone,” said Yellowhead County CAO Luc Mercier in a video update Friday night. It’s an approximate 50-kilometre stretch of land that includes the town of Edson. Yellowhead County said the western boundary of evacuation zone is Range Road 200, the northern boundary is Township Road 570 to Range Road 160, then north to Township Road 580 east to Highway 751 and south to Township Road 520. There could be impacts to roads and highways as the fire crosses blocking off points of egress for evacuation,” the emergency alert said. The fires are moving closer to more populated areas, including Edson, which has a population of about 8,000 people. said due to increased fire activity, flames were becoming increasingly unpredictable. “Overnight relative humidities are not expected to reduce significantly however the rate of spread will diminish as temperature decreases.”Īn Alberta Emergency Alert issued around 6:30 p.m. The west side of the fire is burning in predominantly spruce trees, which the province said under these extreme conditions spreads upwards of 35 metres per minute. A late evening update from Alberta Wildfire said the west side of the fire grew by nearly 21 kilometres Friday to the west and northwest.
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