Residents of several communities west of Edmonton have been ordered to evacuate their homes due to an encroaching and out-of-control wildfire.
RCMP say due to high winds, a fire in Parkland County is quickly heading west toward the hamlets of Entwistle and Evansburg, two communities about 100 kilometres west of Edmonton.
Both Parkland County and the neighbouring Yellowhead County have declared a state of local emergency.
Derrick Forsythe, information officer with Alberta Wildfire, said there are technically two fires burning in the area. As of 10 a.m., one of them was 330 hectares and the other was 3,000 hectares.
“With conditions so dry, people should take heed
