Morning Update: Unease hangs in the air for Fort McMurray residents still shaken by last wildfire escape


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Good morning, Nancy Grant is ready. The last time this happened she and her husband had about 20 minutes to get out. Now, three emergency bags sit on top of her SUV, three months worth of medicine is on hand, and once she heard of another wildfire heading towards Fort McMurray, she packed more bags. Grant and her husband lost their home in the 2016 wildfire known as The Beast. That wildfire torched roughly 2,400 homes and devastated the northern Alberta city. By yesterday afternoon, the Fort McMurray fire had consumed nearly 21,000 hectares, and was about 5.5 kilometres from...