FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA — Thousands of residents in four neighbourhoods in the southern end of Fort McMurray were ordered out Tuesday as a wildfire threatened the Alberta city, bringing back memories of a devastating fire eight years earlier.
The Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo directed residents in Beacon Hill, Abasand, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace needed to leave by late afternoon.
Butz said later in an update to the Wood Buffalo council that about 6,600 residents were covered under the evacuation order. About 68,000 live in the city. In Edmonton, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told the legislature those displaced by wildfire evacuations would be eligible to receive $1,250 per adult and $600 per childafter seven days.
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