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Vancouver’s UrtheCast shows Fort Mac fires

UrtheCast releases high-resolution of Fort McMurray fires shot from space station.
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The forest fires ravaging Fort McMurray has displaced more than 80,000 residents and taken an estimated 40% of oil sands operations offline.
UrtheCast Corp. (TSX:UR), the Vancouver high-tech company that put high-resolution cameras in space to capture live images of Earth from the International Space Station, has released still photos of the forest fires ravaging Fort McMurray, Alberta.

The photos were taken on May 6. For more photos, click here.