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Wood Buffalo wildfire recovery (Jun 15)0
- Environment
- June 15, 2016
Recovery efforts are well underway two weeks after the start of voluntary re-entry into wildfire-affected communities in Wood Buffalo.

By Government of Alberta
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The Northern disaster-in-waiting 0
- Editorial
- February 12, 2013
How do we stop the forces of nature when they amass, seemingly to conspire, against us?

By Northern Journal
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Emergency evac Fort Smith and Fort Chipewyan 0
- Editorial
- August 16, 2011
Summer is almost over. How did it go by so fast?! It all seems surreal, as we look back on the intense events that unfolded.

By Northern Journal
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June crisis debriefing with SAO Brenda Black 0
- Politics
- August 9, 2011
During the sweltering, stale days of June, Fort Smith SAO Brenda Black spent her much of her days indoors attending meetings, but the hot, dry conditions outside never left her mind.

By Kyle Gennings
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Threat of fire means difficult decisions 0
- Environment
- July 26, 2011
When a community is threatened by wildfire and lives are at risk, portions of a town or even the whole community may have to escape en masse.

By Chris Higgins
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Communication key in fire emergencies 0
- Environment
- July 5, 2011
In 2003, a wildfire ravaged Kelowna in B.C.’s Okanangan Valley, destroying 239 homes and over 25,000 hectares of pine forest surrounding the community. In spite of the horrendous property damage no lives were lost, but over 45,000 people were evacuated.

By Chris Higgins
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