The committee is scheduled to meet on Friday at 2:30 p.m. and will monitor the wildfires in Alberta to make emergency decisions if needed.
“To date, the premier and the minister of public safety and emergency services, who serves as vice-chair of the committee, have been briefed by department officials on the state of the situation. Department officials will also provide daily technical briefings to the media and the public as Alberta’s government continues to respond to the evolving situation,” a Friday afternoon news release read.
The committee comes as more than 13,000 people across Alberta are now affected by mandatory evacuation orders. Around 79 wildfires were considered active as of Friday morning, the province said. Several thousand people were told to flee Fox Lake and the Little Red River Cree Nation because of a fire that flared out of control overnight.
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