17:14 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWildfires fuelled by high winds have blazed through more than a third of a town in Canada’s Alberta province, police say, forcing thousands to flee.<\/p>\n
Numerous homes and public buildings were destroyed in Slave Lake, Mayor Karina Pillay-Kinnee said.<\/p>\n
Slave Lake’s 10,000 residents were ordered to leave on Sunday, and more than two-thirds had fled by Monday.<\/p>\n
No reports of injuries or fatalities have been reported, according to the Alberta Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n
More than 100 wildfires were burning in Alberta as of Monday morning, and roughly 40 of those fires are considered out of control, local media reported.<\/p>\n
Fires forced oil companies in Alberta, the country’s third largest energy producing province, to shut off thousands of barrels of output.<\/p>\n
There were reportedly 125 firefighters in Slave Lake early on Monday, with an additional 100 firefighters en route.<\/p>\n
The Canadian government has deployed 1,000 firefighters, 100 helicopters and 20 water bombers to battle wildfires throughout the entire province.<\/p>\n
A total of 206 sq miles (331 sq km) of land had been burned as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
“It’s heart-wrenching as people lose their homes, their livelihood. For myself, I’m just trying to remain focused on the task at hand,” Ms Pillay-Kinnee told the Calgary Herald newspaper.<\/p>\n
“It’s truly devastating. I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s going to take a while to rebuild our community.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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