Page 5 - Alberta Fire News Today

While crews from across the country are flocking to Alberta to help fight dozens of wildfires, the situation looks much different in northern Ontario. Here's what has been seen in the region so far, and what people should watch for in the coming months.

Saskatchewan's weather will see some major changes over the next week.

The mayor of Yellowhead County is calling on Alberta political parties to postpone the provincial election and focus on the wildfires.

About 90 per cent of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is without power, natural gas has been shut off, and 40 structures 'damaged substantially' from the wildfires.

Western Canada is bracing for an unseasonable heat wave and dry spell that will raise the risk of wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia over the coming days.

The haziness that you saw in the skies over Central New York on Monday, May 8, was a mix of high clouds but also some smoke courtesy of wildfires in Western Canada.

Some 30,000 people are currently under evacuation orders as the province continues to deal with out-of-control blazes.

The Alberta Rapattack program once had 63 firefighters stationed around the province, including at Edson, Fox Creek and Lac La Biche -- communities now threatened by wildfires.

Skies over Massachusetts looked a "opaque," as the National Weather Service described.

The mayor of Yellowhead County is calling on Alberta political parties to postpone the provincial election and focus on the wildfires.