Section of northern Alberta hamlet under mandatory evacuation from flooding

About 100 people in Fort Vermilion were ordered to evacuate their homes Sunday as water levels continued to rise in the Peace River.
Approximately 30 residents of the Buttertown district on the north side of the river from the hamlet and 70 people in the main part of the community were told to leave their homes because of the flood threat, Mackenzie County public information officer Byron Peters said.
“It’s an unusually high spring flow. There was unusually strong ice formed on the r