Entire city evacuated amid massive Canada wildfire

[Donna]

http://www.kpax.com/story/31884432/entire-city-evacuated-amid-massive-canada-wildfire?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KPAX-TV

This is awful!!! 

Authorities called Tuesday for the mandatory evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada, because of wildfire.

[carly]

Canada Largest Contributor To Deforestation Worldwide: Study
The Huffington Post Canada

“You are getting these huge fires which are truly degrading and no longer a part, in many cases, of the natural historic functioning of fires in boreal forests,� he told Canada.com. “They are now transforming many of these northern boreal forests into shrub lands.�

Fort McMurray is the Oil Sands City - two million acres of boreal forest destroyed (as of 2014) for oil extraction.  Very sad they didn't think of the effects this might have on the local population, all those people now losing their homes...tragic.  

[Bobbie Ireland]

Canada Largest Contributor To Deforestation Worldwide: Study
The Huffington Post Canada

“You are getting these huge fires which are truly degrading and no longer a part, in many cases, of the natural historic functioning of fires in boreal forests,� he told Canada.com. “They are now transforming many of these northern boreal forests into shrub lands.�

Fort McMurray is the Oil Sands City - two million acres of boreal forest destroyed (as of 2014) for oil extraction.  Very sad they didn't think of the effects this might have on the local population, all those people now losing their homes...tragic.  

Why in the world can we not just LEAVE THINGS ALONE?! It did not occur to ANYONE what might happen after destroying so much forest? NO ONE AT ALL???

[Carol P.]

So sad.