Slave Lake Wild Fire
433 buildings destroyed and 89 buildings damaged
What
A wild fire set by arson and destroyed 700 million dollars of land. Including bushes and pretty much the whole Slave Lake town. There were 732 people left homeless after this tragic wild fire.
Pollution
There was a lot of smoke and pollution let off from this fire killing thousands of birds and nature.
Why
Arsonist like starting fires, so they wanted to start a bush fire and they did. It ended up to be really bad.
How
Arsonist set this fire in a forest and then it spread all the way to the city. They had fire barriers that did not help at all. The fire got through the barriers very quickly.
When
On May 14-May 16 2011 there was a wild fire that was started by an arsonist. An arsonist is someone that likes to start fires.
Where
In Slave Lake Alberta, a wild fire destroyed 1.8 billion dollars of land.