Selena Wilson and Curtis Wardill hadn’t even unpacked from a wildfire evacuation in Edson last month when another emergency alert was issued Friday evening, ordering everyone to leave town again.
“I’ve kind of had bags kept in the bedroom because I didn’t feel it was a good time to unpack yet with the weather being so crazy. I just figured we might as well be safe than sorry,” Wilson said Sunday at a campground east of Edmonton, where she and her husband have taken refuge in their camper along with their dogs, cats and budgies.order was hard to miss, she said. It came over their phones, friends told them about it and the gas station across their street got busy fast.
Despite the appearance of a lull, municipal officials in the region said the evacuation orders will stand. They’ve told evacuees not to expect to return anytime before Wednesday, though officials later said a portion of the evacuation zone could be lifted as early as Monday afternoon, if weather conditions are favourable.
“If you’re looking at these fires, they may look like they’re a little bit calmer. They’re still very dangerous and it just takes a little bit of wind to get these guys flowing like they were two days ago,” Luc Mercier, the chief operating officer of Yellowhead County, said during Sunday’s update.Airtankers work on a wildfire near Edson, Alta., in a Friday, June 9, 2023, handout photo. A town in northwestern Alberta is being evacuated due to an out-of-control wildfire.
Nearly 14,000 people were under an evacuation order due to fires across Alberta, the province said Sunday. Officials in Edson have said firefighters are going door-to-door moving flammable items including propane tanks and wood piles away from houses and other structures, as the fire continues to hold about 1.5 kilometres to the town’s south boundary.
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