Canada loses an entire city due to wild fire – Yes you read that correctly.

dicksweredinner:

broliloquy:

the-great-snape-debate:

Within the last week Canada has lost an entire city due to wild fire and it is rapidly spreading, and expected to double in size. Fort McMurray has been ablaze all week and the fire is spreading towards Saskatchewan. Attempts to put the fire out have been failing because the fire is so hot water it is evaporating before it can do any good. 

Dry and extremely windy conditions are fueling the blaze, which has already scorched more than 1,560 square kilometers (602 square miles) and displaced tens of thousands of people.

These people are no longer evacuees … They’re refugees. 

Rain is to be expected next week, but a downpour is needed to tame a monstrous fire – which is the size of Hong Kong and is almost 25% bigger than New York City – that has displaced about 88,000 people, wiped out 1,600 structures including homes, schools and hospitals, and sent plumes of smoke as far away as Iowa.

Here is a link if you want to help, please share this, this is a huge tragedy and these people need help. 

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/want-to-help-those-fleeing-fort-mcmurray-heres-how/

These aren’t screen captions from a movie this is happening RIGHT NOW less than 1000 miles away from my own home. 

There’s video footage out there taken by people driving out of the city just before the flames completely consumed it. It’s a vision of Hell - the sky blotted out by smoke, embers falling like rain, and an endless, towering wall of fire less than a minute’s walk from the highway’s edge. The fatalities have been mercifully few thanks to a truly heroic effort on the part of the emergency responders, but those who escaped alive now have nothing to go back to once the inferno burns out. This fire is absolutely devastating.

Jesus fucking christ.