There is a small city north of us (Fort McMurray Alberta) about 5hrs that has a huge forest fire burning out of control and has already burnt about 50% of the citys homes. Monday night a mandatory evacuation was issued for the ENTIRE CITY of 80,000 people!
As of today the fire is 85,000 hectors in size that's the size of a large city of over 1.5 million people.
Unusually hot and dry conditions (in the high 80s) and little snow over the winter has left the entire province where I live in drought conditions.
Please pray as the situation is quite dire.
The video below is from yesterday as the last of the neiborhoods had to flee
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There is a small clip where a motorcyclist was seen clearly being burnt by the heat of the fire.