Canada Wildfire Airlift

Canadian officials began evacuating 8,000 people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray by air on Thursday and hoped to move thousands more via a highway convoy today if it is safe from a massive wildfire raging in Alberta that has grown to 85,000 hectares (210,035 acres).

Canadian officials began evacuating 8,000 people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray by air on Thursday and hoped to move thousands more via a highway convoy today if it is safe from a massive wildfire raging in Alberta that has grown to 85,000 hectares (210,035 acres).