{"id":5767,"date":"2024-05-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:48:26","slug":"smoky-skies-back-in-alberta-as-wildfires-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/smoky-skies-back-in-alberta-as-wildfires-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky skies back in Alberta as wildfires spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the last vestiges of winter gave way to a few days of warm weather, smoke has clouded Alberta\u2019s skies, bringing with it a foreboding memory of summers past, as wildfires continue to burn in the northern parts of the province. <\/p>\n<p>Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued 321&nbsp;air quality alerts, spanning the province from High Level to Milk River. Alberta Wildfire is reporting 50&nbsp;active wildfires as of 4:00&nbsp;p.m. on Sunday, with two currently classified as out-of-control.<\/p>\n<p>One, near Fort McMurray, tripled in size overnight to extend its reach to about 5,500&nbsp;hectares. The other, burning in Grande Prairie County in northwestern Alberta, had grown to about 1,400&nbsp;hectares as of 1&nbsp;p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the last vestiges of winter gave way to a few days of warm weather, smoke has clouded Alberta\u2019s skies, bringing with it a foreboding memory of summers past, as wildfires continue to burn in the northern parts of the province. <\/p>\n<p>Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued 321&nbsp;air quality alerts, spanning the province from High Level to Milk River. Alberta Wildfire is reporting 50&nbsp;active wildfires as of 4:00&nbsp;p.m. on Sunday, with two currently classified as out-of-control.<\/p>\n<p>One, near Fort McMurray, tripled in size overnight to extend its reach to about 5,500&nbsp;hectares. The other, burning in Grande Prairie County in northwestern Alberta, had grown to about 1,400&nbsp;hectares as of 1&nbsp;p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/smoky-skies-back-in-alberta-as-wildfires-spread\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smoky skies back in Alberta as wildfires spread<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,96,125,126,207,165],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}