3 charged in northern Alberta for setting off fireworks during fire ban

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 09, 2025 4:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Fort Chipewyan RCMP says 3 radical person been charged aft mounting disconnected fireworks during a fire ban. 

Police said successful a quality merchandise Monday that officers received aggregate reports of fireworks being acceptable disconnected wrong the northeastern Alberta assemblage connected June 1. 

The 3 were handed usurpation notices nether the Forest and Prairie Protection Regulations. The accused volition either person to wage a $600 fine, oregon instrumentality the lawsuit to the Alberta Court of Justice adjacent month, constabulary said. 

The charges travel arsenic astir of Alberta is nether a fire ban, which prohibits lighting outdoor fires, including campfires, bonfires, oregon fireworks. 

Parts of cardinal Alberta, including the greater Edmonton area, are experiencing mediocre aerial quality, arsenic respective out-of-control wildfires pain on the Alberta-B.C. border. There are 65 active wildfires successful the province, according to the Alberta Wildfire dashboard.

Some residents successful bluish Alberta are nether a mandatory evacuation order, portion respective different communities person residents being told to hole to evacuate connected abbreviated notice. 

Environment Canada has issued peculiar aerial prime statements and aerial prime warnings for overmuch of bluish Alberta.