Meanwhile, the County of Grande Prairie has issued an evacuation order as the Kiskatinaw River wildfire in B.C. is two kilometres from the Alberta border.

A provincewide state of emergency was declared in Alberta as more than 110 wildfires burned across the province, while two out-of-control wildfires burned in British Columbia.

LA GRANDE — More than 440 wildfires are actively burning across nine provinces and two territories in Canada, and firefighters from the United States, including Union County, have been deployed ...