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A Collection by: PreventionWeb user UNISDR Editors
Last updated: 10 Feb 2019
In May 2016, a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruining thousands of homes and buildings, and causing tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
News
Canada: Fort McMurray population down nearly 11 per cent since wildfire, census shows
CBC/Radio-Canada
15 January 2019
News
Thousands of Fort Mac fire tweets show evacuees struggled for online answers
University of Calgary
19 June 2017
News
Canada: Fire-ravaged, flood-prone Fort McMurray community wants to rebuild despite risk
CBC/Radio-Canada
04 October 2016
Documents and Publications
Why some homes survived: Learning from the Fort McMurray wildfire disaster
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction; Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
2016
News
In Fort McMurray, let’s build resilience, rather than a repeat disaster
Globe and Mail, the
08 June 2016
News
Sometimes it takes a disaster like Fort McMurray to make us prepare for the next one - Analysis
CBC/Radio-Canada
09 May 2016
News
Era of mega-fires started in the 1980s and Fort McMurray is not the end
Globe and Mail, the
08 May 2016