Alberta Fires to Wane as Winds Ease, Lessening Oil Risks
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Firefighters may begin to gain the upper hand over Alberta’s wildfires as winds ease and humidity rises, lessening the risk to crude production sites, said a spokesman from Alberta Sustainable Resource Development.
Wind speeds have fallen from a peak of almost 100 kilometers (62 miles) an hour on May 15 when fires forced the evacuation of all 7,000 inhabitants of the town of Slave Lake, Dave Ealey, a spokesman for the Alberta ministry, said yesterday. About 1,000 firefighters were deployed across the northern half of the province.