All of Fort McMurray ordered to flee wildfire in the largest fire evacuation in Alberta's history

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5. I am truly concerned for the people being evacuated

but this was just a matter of time that the tar sands would be in the line of raging wildfires. It is disaster of epic proportion, especially when the open pits of flammables catch. There is yet another tragedy in this as well, this area abuts and encroaches on the Wood Bison Refuge where the vast majority of the Wood Bison reside, they were already at risk with their habitat being dredged up for tar sands oil, their water polluted as well, now the fires will rage through the preserve and endanger them as well as all those people who are there being evacuated.

What a horrible mess. I picture any of the oil facilities going up to be much like an oil refinery or whatever facility going up in flames like we saw in Iraq when those were getting torched during the war.