County of Grande Prairie issues evacuation alert due to wildfire

CBC News

· Posted: May 04, 2025 8:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

A wildfire successful the County of Grande Prairie has triggered an evacuation alert, forcing immoderate residents to permission their homes.

RCMP issued a quality merchandise soon earlier 4:30 p.m. MT Sunday, stating they were evacuating radical surviving conscionable southwest of the City of Grande Prairie, astir 390 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

About an hr later, the region issued the evacuation alert for each residents who unrecorded southbound of Township Road 710 down to 27th Avenue, and eastbound of Range Road 64 retired to Highway 40.

Affected residents request to stitchery important documents, medicine and aesculapian devices, and spell to the Pomeroy Hotel successful the City of Grande Prairie, the alert says.

Alberta Wildfire estimated the out-of-control occurrence to span 2 hectares astir 4:30 p.m. But astir an hr later, it had grown to 35 hectares, according to the agency's wildfire dashboard.

The fire is burning betwixt Township Road 710 and Highway 40, RCMP said. An alert from the County of Grande Prairie said the flames are past the water northbound of Deer Ridge Estates.

Police did not specify however galore radical were evacuated.

The region and metropolis occurrence departments responded to the scene, with Alberta Wildfire besides assisting, the county's alert said.

This marks 2 consecutive days where county residents were forced from their homes owed to a wildfire.

On Saturday, a occurrence successful the Morgan's Mountain area forced 3 homes to evacuate.

That occurrence was deemed nether power arsenic of 10 a.m. Sunday, according to an update from the county.