Leaving a campfire unattended could result in a $600 fine, operating an off-road vehicle where prohibited is $1,200 and starting a wildfire could cost up to $100,000. In face of a larger threat, a unified command is established, with municipal, provincial and Indigenous leaders in the same room and receiving all pertinent information.Īlberta Wildfire also moved up the start of wildfire season by one month, meaning firefighters are trained earlier and the equipment made ready, Tucker said.Īs well, the province increased fines for violating fire bylaws. The department works closely with the municipality when a fire threatens a community, she said.
“We need to sit side by side and work with them to make sure that communication is flowing.”ĭutchess Sabovitch fled the Fort McMurray fire in 2016 with her husband on a motorcycle, driving through ash, flames and gridlock on the only highway out of town. “When we work on a wildfire now, it’s a little different than you would’ve seen five years ago,” Tucker said. That report - one of several commissioned after the 2016 fire - outlined 10 recommendations, which include: creating a single incident-command centre, increasing weather forecasting capacities, extending forecasting, completing wildfire management plans and changing the start date of wildfire season.Ĭhristie Tucker, information unit lead for Alberta Wildfire, said progress has been made on all the recommendations. Unless Alberta learns to be better prepared and more wildfire resilient, the public "can expect similar or worse outcomes on a more frequent basis," said a report commissioned by Alberta Wildfire, a division under the provincial government’s Agriculture and Forestry Department responsible for monitoring and managing wildfires. CBC Edmonton reporter Jamie Malbeuf looks back on the five-year anniversary of the Fort McMurray wildfier and looks ahead to what the future might hold for the region. But the fact remains that there is only one road in and out of the region. Progress has been made on all 10 of the recommendations from a report commissioned following the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire. “Just smelling a campfire - I can’t be there,” Sabovitch said. “I remember my husband being quite stiff on the motorcycle.”įive years later, she, like many others, still lives in fear of fire. The fire started on and swept through the community, forcing more than 80,000 people to flee their homes on May 3.Īmong them, Sabovitch fled the fire with her husband on a motorcycle, driving through ash and flames and gridlock on the only highway out of town.
One of the costliest insured events in Canada, the Horse River Wildfire flattened 2,400 structures and caused almost $9 billion in damages. “That’s actually the part that bothers me more than anything.” “We used to have beautiful forests right behind the house,” said Sabovitch. Dutchess Sabovitch is planting trees behind her Fort McMurray home, trying to regenerate the forest that was bulldozed in 2016 to create a “fire break” intended to slow the rapidly spreading Horse River Wildfire.
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