Fort Mac Gets a Bit of Rain and Tentative Return Dates Set for Fire Evacuees
Fort McMurray: Fort McMurray residents got some good news this weekend as their municipality announced a timeline for them to return to their neighbourhoods, and the area also received a little bit of rain.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, released a neigbourhood-by-neighbourhood schedule for the phased re-entry of wildfire evacuees to the northern Alberta city.
Residents of the Lower Townsite, Anzac, Fort McMurray 468 First Nation and Gregoire Lake Estates will be the first residents to return on June 1 and other neighbourhoods will follow until June 4.
The province said there were “trace amounts” of rain in the area on Saturday and that the weather was good for making headway in fighting the fire.