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Thousands of Canadians have been forced to evacuate their homes as colossal wildfires fill their rear-view mirrors with smoke-blackened skies, many of them unsure when they will be able to come home.

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Bright red hoses thicker than a thigh snake along the highways near Fort McMurray, studded with cannons that can blast enough water into fire-threatened ditches to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 90 minutes.

Thousands of Canadians have been displaced as fires burn in Alberta, B.C. and Manitoba. Here are the latest updates.

Bright red hoses thicker than a thigh snake along the highways near Fort McMurray, studded with cannons that can blast enough water into fire-threatened ditches to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 90 minutes.

Huge soaker hoses are being used to help protect buildings, homes and vital routes into and out of the Alberta city against wildfire flames that have forced the evacuation of four neighbourhoods.

Bright red hoses thicker than a thigh snake along the highways near Fort McMurray, studded with cannons that can blast enough water into fire-threatened ditches to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 90 minutes.

The MWF-O17 fire has already forced thousands of people in the Fort McMurray area to leave their homes this week.

A new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) says wildfires displaced 185,000 people in Canada last year, the highest number since data became available in 2008.