Winds and weather condition reports are not conclusive nor consistent enough to know anything for certain. Goodnight neighbours, wherever you are.ħ:30 pm: Alberta has made available a site to provide all evacuees with information, resources, and funds when necessary.Īlso available, at the same link, an online check-in / registration if you are not near Whitecourt or your community’s assigned reception location.Ħ:00 pm: No significant change to note. No further updates tonight UNLESS something changes. New evacuees will very likely be joining you at the Allan & Jean Millar Centre soon.ĩ:40 pm: Conditions are stable. Little Smoky and surrounding area is now on mandatory evacuation alert. Two newly installed air monitoring units, one in Whitecourt and one in Fox Creek, will bolster the networks ability to keep track of air quality for us.Ī solid police presence consistently patrols the community and monitors the entrances.Ĭoordinating this large scale offence, procuring supplies, water, equipment, fuel, preparing meals for 110 (yesterday), responding to phones, messages and email inquiries, is a massive task. If weather and conditions allow, you can anticipate the creation of new and fortification of existing containment guards. Units will patrol the fire perimeter on foot and focus on extinguishing hot-spots and flare-ups. Reinforcements, additional air support, and various imported personnel have arrived. More reinforcements are on the way, and additional air support (shared with other nearby fires) is available and called in when needed.ħ:20 am: The Fox Creek fire department and Ab Wildfire, tactical, air and ground crews are prepared for the fire to grow significantly today. Hopefully, the forecast for cloudy skies and cooler temperatures overnight tucked the sleeping giant in comfortably for night. More of the same fire behaviour is expected today and over the weekend.Ĭrews will tackle new flare-ups, and when possible, continue to build strategic containment guards. Those of you with wood-stoves or who build campfires, will understand these principles, the burning characteristics of the different woods and kindling AND the type of smoke that results. Tamarack has some kind of fire retardant and slow burning characteristic that no one can explain. Mixed forest tend to ignite and spread less quickly. Fire invading areas rich in black spruce tend to ignite quicker and spread faster. Weather is not the only factor determining how or where this giant goes. Updates will absolutely continue, when humanly possible. It does not respect schedules or routine. This fire is still out of control and growing. Two excursions at the NW head of the fire, a grass fire at Giroux lake, two on the north long side, and two on the south side made for a long exhausting day. There were seven flare-ups, or what we’ve have learned are called excursions, that engulfed an additional 2300 hectares.Įven though significantly less than was possible, it is still considered “aggressive growth.” Under normal circumstances, it would be an enviable day. (This is not everyone.)ħ:35am: Blue sky and a collection of fluffy cumulus clouds most of the day. Photo added.ĩ:30 am: The Emergency Response Team, firefighters, police, representatives from various agencies. Edit: 1:30pm – northish, from the firehall.
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