Wildfire situation improving, Alberta no longer in state of emergency

Alberta is no longer under a provincial state of emergency. The Emergency Management Act was invoked on May 6 to help mobilize firefighting and evacuee resources as 110 wildfires burned in the province. So far in the 2023 Alberta wildfire season, there have been 563 wildfires. "We've surpassed a million hectares burned, a milestone we've never hit by this point," Christie Tucker of Alberta Wildfire said Saturday. "The most area burned for an entire wildfire season was 1.3 million hectares in 198