This is the most terrifying video I’ve seen of the Fort McMurray forest fire. Video was taken on Monday, May 2.
This is a quote from another local resident: I’ve tried to get too where I live when I’m up here but the traffic in the downtown area was grid locked. So I waited it out at the office until the radio announced for the evacuation of the downtown area. I left the office at 4:45pm for our Kearl office which is normally a two hour drive north east of Fort McMurray, I arrived a midnight last night. It was absolutely crazy traffic was bumper to bumper all the way. The 63 highway going north is a four lanes to about half way to my destination which the authorities turn into a four lane highway going north in order to get people out of the city quicker. Well that turn into a bit of a disaster because people were still trying to get from site back to their love one or get their belonging out. All of the camps in the surrounding areas are taking in people and feeding them. We’ve been told that the Red Cross has been dispatched and that fuel tankers have been sent up from Edmonton. The hospital has been evacuated and in the area we are at they have an emergency jet at one of the site airport in case someone has to be flown to Edmonton or Calgary. Needless to say that the Alberta NPD government cut backs in Wildfire firefighting of $1.5 million hasn’t help the situation.
