About 300 members of the Canadian Armed Forces have been dispatched in Alberta, as the return of hot dry weather and high winds is expected to make the fight more difficult in the days ahead.
Soldiers are currently working southwest of Grande Prairie where a wildfire, covering 1,581 hectares, continues to burn out of control.
The county has pulled in firefighters from nearby departments and hired a crew from B.C. on private contract but it's not enough. Crews are exhausted, stretched thin, and working in increasingly dangerous conditions, he says. After a few days of relative calm, the return of hot, dry weather this weekend threatens to make conditions more volatile.
Rob Griffith, an Environment Canada metrologist based in Edmonton, said an upper ridge building in the atmosphere over western Canada will leave the province in a heat wave for days.Temperatures are expected to ease up by midway through next week, but that weather front will come with its own hazards, Griffith said.
An upper ridge of high pressure creating a heat wave over Alberta will only dissipate temporarily, meaning a return to high temperatures by the end of next week, he said. "It's not unusual to have fires in May in the boreal forest. But this year the fires are of a magnitude and intensity that's quite different from the norm."
Emergency officials will deliver an update on the government's wildfire response at 3 p.m. MT Saturday. Watch the news conference live here.Conroy Sewepagaham, chief of the Little Red River Cree Nation, said the weather in the days ahead will be a challenge for firefighters battling a fire that ravaged Fox Lake.Residents began clearing out last Wednesday as the Paskwa wildfire grew rapidly, eventually overwhelming the town and consuming homes and businesses.
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