"For the majority of the province, in the boreal forest, conditions are looking really good for normal [or] near-normal ...

It may only be February, but Alberta Wildfire officials are already making preparations for the start of this year’s wildfire season. It’s looking like a promising start to wildfire season in terms of ...

Read an excerpt below, about a horrendous 2016 wildfire that decimated Fort McMurray, the center of Canada's oil industry, and don't miss Tracy Smith's interview with John Vaillant on "CBS Sunday ...

The journalist John Vaillant’s book “Fire Weather” begins in the spring of 2016 in the boreal forests surrounding the remote Canadian city of Fort McMurray, where a fire is growing.