Alberta wildfire update May 9 [Video]

A fire ban has been reinstated in the Grande Prairie Forest Area, where the fire risk is highest in Alberta as temperatures climb. 

“They just didn’t get the precipitation,” Alberta Wildfire spokesperson Christie Tucker said in the weekly provincial wildfire update Thursday morning in Edmonton. 

While rain – and snow in some areas – in the past week reduced the wildfire danger to low to moderate throughout much of the province, northwestern Alberta received less and had more built up dry vegetation. 

“We know in the short term this weekend, we are expecting dry conditions, we’re expecting warm conditions, we are looking at winds in a couple of areas that could provide additional danger, and so we are increasing our caution for this weekend, particularly in those areas that didn’t get as much rain around the Peace and Grande Prairie region,” Tucker explained. 

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