Once sleeping giants, Alberta’s wildfires are threatening to show the full extent of their power.
High temperatures have been unrelenting in recent days and no rain is in the forecast.
While temperatures will ease somewhat in the week ahead, the changing forecast is expected to bring new dangers.
A shift in wind direction could lead to “unpredictable wildfire behaviour,” wildfire information officer Christie Tucker told a news conference Monday.
As of Monday afternoon, 90 wildfires were burning in forest protection areas across the province, Tucker said, 23 of them out of control.
Thousands of people have been forced from their homes and Alberta’s wildfire resources have been
