As of Monday, there have been 134 wildfires in Alberta this year —64 of which were sparked in the last week.
Grass fire in northwest Edmonton creeps close to homes
Click to share quote on Twitter: "Pick any long weekend in the summer and we'll see 30, 40, 50 abandoned campfires. At that, we have an emerging trend of fireworks and exploding targets that are igniting wildfires.
“This was a relatively average season for us, with numbers slightly above the five-year average for number of wildfires but fewer hectares burned,” Wildlife information officer Melissa Story said in a statement.Click to share quote on Twitter: "Last year, 61 per cent of wildfires were human-caused and completely preventable.
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