Residents' experiences of the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire, Alberta

• Main Author: McGee, Tara K.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
• Subjects: Experiences; wildfire evacuation; recovery; scipo; manag; Fort McMurray; Canada; Wood Buffalo; Horse River; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-16-506_129; http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44646

In May 2016, the urban centre of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, was devastated by the Horse River wildfire (known as the Fort McMurray wildfire), which destroyed 2400 homes and caused the evacuation of 88,000 residents. I will present results from two online surveys carried out with a sample of r...