Alberta Fires - Red Cross Emergency Appeal

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Alberta Fires: Emergency Appeal

Leadnow.ca - À l'Action writes: "The entire city of Fort McMurray is under evacuation notice due to a massive wildfire fuelled by high temperatures and tinder-dry forest.

Looking for ways to help? The Red Cross has set up an emergency ‘Alberta Fires’ appeal. Click here to donate >> http://bit.ly/23pdIdu You can also text REDCROSS to 30333 to make a $5 donation.
Are you in Alberta? The situation is changing quickly. You can get up-to-date information here >> The entire city of Fort McMurray is under evacuation notice due to a massive wildfire fuelled by high temperatures and tinder-dry forest.

Looking for ways to help? The Red Cross has set up an emergency ‘Alberta Fires’ appeal. Click here to donate >> http://bit.ly/23pdIdu You can also text REDCROSS to 30333 to make a $5 donation.
Are you in Alberta? The situation is changing quickly. You can get up-to-date information here >> http://bit.ly/1W93mzO << including Alberta’s emergency alert app, numbers to call for assistance, and how to report that you are safe. << including Alberta’s emergency alert app, numbers to call for assistance, and how to report that you are safe."

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My Home Town - La Ronge, Saskatchewan

Lynn and Iris Riese's beautiful log home. Photo, courtesy Tammy Cook-Searson

My Home Town - La Ronge, Saskatchewan ‪#‎skfire‬

The area that I grew up in has been much in the news in recent days as a result of wild fires. 

A 'mandatory evacuation' order was issued late this afternoon for the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (La Ronge), Town of La Ronge and Village of Air Ronge.

Anyone interested in following these events can check in at the FB pages of Tammy Cook-Searson, Chief of the LLRIB and Thomas Sierzycki, Mayor of La Ronge. Another very informative site is La Ronge & Area Rez News. 

- Michelle

Western wildfires go global and go ‘pyro’

This photo dated July 14, 2014 of the Birch Creek fire, taken out window of aircraft, gives a sense of the scale of the fires in the Northwest Territories. (HANDOUT/NWTFire)

Western wildfires go global and go ‘pyro’

Bow River Shuttles writes: "Smoke from forest fires (or wildfires, as they're now called) burning in B.C. and the Northwest Territories began showing up in Alberta back in mid-July. Our view west to the Canadian Rockies has often been obscured, and downtown Calgary, driving in from the Bow River, has sometimes been barely visible. On occasion, smoke has settled in along the Bow River valley, south east of Calgary. It turns out that this smoke can now be seen in other parts of the world!"

Raging fires pollute the planet
Smoke clouds can be spotted from outer space
by Margaret Munro, Calgary Herald/Postmedia News/O.Canada.com Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Smoke from Canada's wildfires, which have burned vast tracks of forest in B.C. and the Northwest Territories, has been spotted as far away as Portugal.

The smoke's travel is fuelled in part by incredible clouds created by the fires that act like chimneys. They funnel smoke and ash as high as 10 to 15 kilometres into the atmosphere.

Read article here: http://bit.ly/1yflgjE