“This fire is a monster. I’m not gonna sugar coat it,” said Kevin Zahara, Mayor of Edson. “Even will (all) these resources, it’s going to be a very big challenge with the weather conditions we have.”
Edson resident Calvin Bootsman took a familiar drive to Edmonton after being evacuated again this year due to wildfires that have been ravaging the province for over a month.
“We left at midnight, so the fire was about three kilometres from our place and we could actually see the orange glow and the flames. It was pretty stressful,” Bootsman recalled. The town of around 8,000 people was one of the first to be evacuated when wildfires started to spring up at the end of April. Residents were called back days later, only to be evacuated again, and now, for a third time.Alberta Wildfire said Saturday the fire complex near Edson is seeing significant growth — the fire itself is now more than 100,000 hectares in size and just two kilometres south of the town.
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