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Publication Date: March 8, 2026 - 14:28

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Anxiety in some Alberta mountain towns as wildfire season begins

March 8, 2026

Despite spring snow still dusting parts of Alberta, it's now officially wildfire season, and with it comes once again the gnawing worry about which community will next be touched by nature's fickle finger of destruction.



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