Happy Holidays and Giving Tuesday/ Support People Western Canada Wildfire

Disaster Relief: Providing Shelter, food and water. Almost 25,000 people who live in the Canadian province of Alberta have been evacuated as wildfires rage across the region, which is seeing abnormally hot weather and high winds. The fires have burned 121,909 hectares, roughly more than 301,000 acres, and since Friday, at least 45 new wildfires have started, and 14 local states of emergency issued. Some residents in the community of Fox Lake, where the fires are severe, had to be evacuated by helicopters. In Drayton Valley, firefighters, helicopters and air tankers battled an out-of-control fire that torched over 3,700 acres. Portions of Big Lakes County – home to about 5,600 residents – were also ordered to evacuate, including residents east of the West Prairie River and Highway 749 and south of Township Road 724. It’s unclear how many people are affected by the evacuations.

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