He said it allowed them to further protect fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.
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And he’s shared his view of the wildfire before.
While the weather will help emergency workers in the city’s interiors, officials said it could take months to put out the fire in forested areas.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said they were encouraged by how much of it escaped destruction, estimating nearly 90 percent of its buildings were saved.
Some 25,000 evacuees have all left oil sands work camps in north of the city. Thousands of displaced residents got a drive-by view of some of the burned-out neighborhoods as convoys continued.
Almost all of Fort McMurray’s residents escaped the fire safely, although two people died in a auto crash during the evacuation.
“Crews will assess the damage as well as checking on infrastructure such as natural gas lines and the electrical power grid”.
“I too. congratulate the courageous firefighters and first responders who have been there to do extraordinary work through these bad blazes in Fort McMurray”, Trudeau said.
Officials said 85 percent to 90 percent of Fort McMurray is intact, including the downtown district and the oil mines to the north.
Alberta officials said two wildfires in the Fort McMurray area have joined, and estimate the size of fire at about 2,300 square kilometres.
The wildfire scorching through Canada’s oil sands region in northeast Alberta had been expected to double in size on Sunday, threatening the neighboring province of Saskatchewan, as it moved into its seventh day.
Despite the good weather, residents of Fort McMurray should not expect to return home for an “extended period of time”, according to the Alberta government.
The wildfire that started a week ago has forced as much as a third of Canada’s oil output offline, hurting an economy already dampened by the fall in oil prices.
A raging Canadian wildfire grew explosively on Saturday as hot, dry winds pushed the blaze across the energy heartland of Alberta and smoke forced the shutdown of a major oil sands project. Its workers largely live in Fort McMurray, a former frontier outpost-turned-city whose residents come from all over Canada.
Last week, as the blaze worsened, Trudeau said a visit would have to wait. The company said in a statement that while there is no imminent threat from fire, smoke has reached its Mildred Lake site.
Nicole Cormier, a photographer from Fort McMurray, is staying with family in Lac La Biche but brings neighbors that she evacuated with her to the center every day for services. The fire covers almost 400,000 acres, or about 16 times its original size, largely thanks to strong winds.
She said that they have a security system on their house, so they had been able to log in and could see that their house was still standing.
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The forest fires that have wrought devastation to Alberta have impacted on the use of cogeneration facilities in Canadian province. She said getting production back online will be a matter of “days and short weeks”.
