More than 13,000 people across Alberta are now affected in some way or another by mandatory evacuation orders with 79 active wildfires raging as of Friday morning.
The fire was last recorded at nearly 4,400 hectares in size, but the intense fire activity and smoke has made it hard to accurately gauge the size, according to Alberta Wildfire.
Several thousand people have been ordered to leave their homes as more than 100 wildfires burn across Alberta. "Everybody's out, everybody's alive, nobody's injured," said Steven Lacroix, managing director of Alberta Emergency Management Agency.
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