Canada

A Q&A with a scientist who specializes in forest fires, on what needs to happen for the Fort McMurray fires to go out

Maclean’s is using the latest data to track the growth of the Fort McMurray fire and to see what it looks like when superimposed on maps of other cities

From food and water to comfort and care, how the Red Cross is responding to the massive wildfire ravaging the Alberta city

Our forests are burning more than ever before, even if an increasingly urban Canada hasn’t been paying attention

There are already plans to rescue pets that Fort McMurray evacuees had to leave behind, but experts say animals are also miraculously fire-smart

Staff will go overseas to work through hundreds of applications submitted by private groups, says McCallum

’The smoke was suddenly at a 45-degree angle. Then everything changed’: A first-hand account of the flames in Fort Mac

’They were ready,’ says one fire expert who knows firsthand what it’s like to fight an unpredictable wildfire

In any given year, Alberta experiences between 1,000 and 1,700 forest fires. Consider the scope of the current devastation

What if the wildfires raging in Fort McMurray hit the oil sands?