Canada evacuating 8,000 wildfire evacuees by air

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta — Canadian officials will start moving thousands of people from work camps north of devastated Fort McMurray in a mass highway convoy Friday morning if it is safe from a massive wildfire raging in Alberta.

Officials airlifted 8,000 people on Thursday and will continue the airlift Friday, while a mass migration of cars will move south in the morning.

http://www.startribune.com/alberta-fire-evacuees-moved-a-2nd-time-as-weather-shifts/378244771/