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A forest fire burning near a northern Alberta town has grown slightly, but officials say firefighters are making good progress.

Officials say wildfire evacuees in northwestern Alberta should not expect to return until at least next week and that provincial emergency funds for gas, food and other expenses should be available by Monday, May 27, 2019.

The mayor of a northwestern Alberta town is urging the province to get financial aid flowing quickly to evacuees, as firefighters prepare for shifting winds that could push a powerful wildfire toward the community.

Crews say they are making good progress taming a wildfire that has prompted evacuation alerts for several properties in British Columbia's southern Okanagan.

Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of her central British Columbia community.

Inhaling smoke from a wildfire can be equal to smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day depending on its thickness, says a researcher studying wildfires in Western Canada.

Chief Larry Nooski remembers the deafening sound of a wildfire racing toward Nadleh Whut'en territory in August, like a "low-level jet plane."

A Calgary researcher says the Fort McMurray wildfire in 2016 showed how pets are often overlooked in disaster planning.

In addition to firefighting crews from across Canada and the United States, Ontario welcomed three separate groups of 100 Mexican firefighters each, on July 20, 24 and 28.

With warm weather, a high snowpack and floodwaters rising throughout the province, it may seem like B.C. is set to repeat last year’s weather patterns, which led to a catastrophic summer of fires.

"Our climate is changing, and it's affecting Canadians across the country," said the department in an end-of-year news release sent out Thursday morning.

Firefighter Mark Stephenson says he can't drive through Fort McMurray without being brought back to May 2016.

Empowered by fossil fuel–driven technology, a rapidly growing human population and an insatiable demand for constant growth, our species is responsible for the calamitous consequences.

When wildfire smoke blankets a province, as it did in B.C. for weeks this summer, there are marked increases in asthma attacks and respiratory infections, as well as smaller increases for things like heart attacks and cardiac arrests, a B.C. scientist says.

Helicopters rescued several workers on Wednesday, October 26, 2017, as residents were ordered to leave their homes because of a wind-whipped wildfire burning in southwestern Alberta.