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'Raining down ash': Fast-moving wildfire continues to rage near Whitecourt, Alta.

CBC·Wallis Snowdon·20 days ago
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Trees, flanked by flames and turned into blackened columns of smoke, lined the road to safety for Jessica Adams. She was among at least 100 people forced from their homes Monday as a fast-moving wildfire triggered an evacuation order in an area of Woodlands County, southeast of Whitecourt, Alta.  Adams said she fears her neighbours’ homes on Bison Road were in the path of the flames.  Footage Adams and her partner John Gross captured on their phones during the evacuation Monday evening showed massive plumes of smoke encroaching on the road near their home as flames flared high in the treeline.   “It was getting really bad. There were flames on both sides of the road as we were pulling out,” Adams said in an interview with CBC News Tuesday.  “It was unworldly. You see it on the news and you see it happen to everybody else but you don’t think you’ll live that.” Out-of-control wildfire spurs evacuation order for area near Whitecourt, Alta.…

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