Canada, the world’s fourth-largest crude producer, has long seen its energy output threatened by wildfires that rage through the dense forests of northern Alberta in spring and summer. In 2016, a blaze shut down the massive oilsands mines just north of Fort McMurray, taking more than 1 million barrels of daily production offline.

Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for communities in remote northern Alberta as the province braces for another day of potentially explosive wildfire activity.

A massive fire is closing in on Flin Flon, a community in Manitoba, as air quality advisories reach as far as the US state of Illinois.

Crews battling a fire in northern Alberta have lost radio contact and are taking shelter as a runaway wildfire inched closer to the community.

MEG Energy N/A said on Friday it evacuated all non-essential workers from its Christina Lake production facility in northern Alberta due to wildfires burning in the area. The company said it has not curtailed its oil production at the site, which is located 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray.

Alberta isn’t the only province grappling with fires. Manitoba declared a province-wide state of emergency on Wednesday amid intensifying blazes in the northern part of the province, with the largest evacuation centered on Flin Flon, Man. where at least 17,000 people have fled the blazes.

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The Oregon Department of Forestry on Friday deployed 14 firefighters to Alberta, Canada, four to Alaska, three to Minnesota and one to Florida to help fight wildfires. "With fire season beginning in some parts of the state,

A wildfire in northeastern British Columbia that prompted an evacuation order for roughly 70 people on Thursday has quadrupled in size.