Evacuation alerts lifted for Slave Lake, Lesser Slave River | CBC News
A 12-hour evacuation alert for the Town of Slave Lake, 260
kilometres northwest of Edmonton, has been lifted as of Friday morning.
kilometres northwest of Edmonton, has been lifted as of Friday morning.
An
eight-hour evacuation alert for the town was issued May 30. It was
downgraded to a 12-hour alert on Tuesday. The alert was prompted by a
massive out-of-control wildfire in the Slave Lake region called
the McMillan Wildfire Complex.
Alberta Emergency Alert said on its
website that rain in the Slave Lake region has helped reduce the fire
hazard of the McMillan Complex, which is burning about 33 kilometres
northeast of the town.
The most recent update from Alberta Wildfire estimates the fire to be 255,873 hectares in size.