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NO NO, CLIFTON HILL AND THE ENTIRE TOURIST AREA OF NIAGARA FALLS!!!!!!!!!! Then maybe that way we could get some manufacturing and industrial jobs back in this dump hellhole of a city for reconstruction instead of all just hotel, restaurant and casino bull**** that it is now. If the tourist area burned maybe it would even switch this city from a tourism city to something better.
You are delusional. Paris has plenty of touristic stuff but it didn't prevent it from a rich and powerful city. Sarnia doesn't have a gigantic waterfall and didn't automatically become a manufacturing centre. You are assuming tourist resources prevented Niagara Falls from becoming a city with strong economy, when the failure has nothing to do with that.
The $250 million airport that just opened in Fort McMurray is in the line of fire. Three communities south of Fort McMurray have been evacuated.
"RCMP went door to door in Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation after a mandatory evacuation order was issued.
Buses took people to Edmonton and officials hope to have everyone out by midnight. Dale Bendfeld, the acting director of community services and policing for Wood Buffalo, says safety, as always, is paramount."
Looks like the evacuation of some neighbourhoods especially Beacon Hill was very hectic. There were many people who were sleeping Tuesday morning/mid-day since they were working night shifts and when they went to sleep, the latest was that Beacon Hill, Abasands and Waterways were not under evacuation order and that the fire was being kept at bay by a creek and firebreak (and firefighters) a few km from town.
This was the update on Monday at 11pm.
Tuesday 11am, the update is that the fire is still being kept at bad 1-2 km from town, although the situation is serious and people should start getting their evacuation kits ready.
Tuesday 1:55pm, Beacon Hill, Abasand and part of Thickwood are on voluntary evacuation notice.
Tuesday 2:05pm, Beacon Hill, Abasand and Grayling Terrace are under mandatory evacuation.
It sounds like some people who were sleeping were only woken up around that time by phone calls from friends. Hopefully everyone could be reached in time because this is what Beacon Hill looked like around 2:45pm-2:50pm. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...Ripi5iI8UX2AyV
Officially no casualties, but hopefully that not just because some people had yet to be reached and confirmed safe (or not) by their friends and family.
Over the next hour, several additional neighbourhoods are ordered to be evacuated, and this is the situation at 5pm.
6:20pm the entire city is under evacuation orders.
Winds seem to from shifting, they were from the SW yesterday, now they're more from the NW. That means there's going to be pressure on Saprae Creek (if it's still intact, status is unknown), and probably Gregoire, Arabian Dr area, and Timberlea. Prospect Dr area is a brand new subdivision just next to Timberlea.
According to the CBC the fire is much worse. It is just terrible to watch. I can't even begin to imagine what the people of Fort McMurray are experiencing right now. Both the Canadian and Albertan governments will be matching Red Cross donations so if you were thinking of donating you should.
This is the worst fire that I have ever heard about. It is devastating. I can't begin to imagine how the residents who had to flee Fort McMurray must be feeling. It is inconceivable to me.
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Whoa! CBS News actually pushed Trump aside for a minute and reported this as the top headline. I can not believe the videos captured with everyone heading out of town driving right through the embers, totally surreal looking. All these hard working people that busted their butts up there working long hours and losing everything. I really hope the insurance companies come through for them. Absolutely remarkable that there is no loss of life yet.
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