Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray" id="mwAUU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fort McMurray">Fort McMurray</a>, Alberta, Canada as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_Wildfire" id="mwAUY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire">a wildfire rips through the community</a>, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_3#cite_note-12" id="mwAUc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUg">[12]</span></a></sup>
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