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Photographer: Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP
Photographer: Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP

Alberta's Runaway Inferno Forces an Entire Community to Flee

More than 80,000 residents have been forced to flee their homes as wildfires continue to tear through the Canadian oil sands community of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. The blaze forced cuts in area oil production and had destroyed more than 1,600 buildings in Fort McMurray by Wednesday.