May 5, 2016

Vehicles were abandoned on the highways leading from the raging forest fires in Fort McMurray. Neighboring Alberta communities have banded together to offer support in the form of food, water and gasoline.

: A wildfire rages through Fort McMurray, Alberta on Wednesday May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray Alberta on Wednesday May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: Wildfires burn in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: Wildfires burn in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: A pilot flies near wildfires burning in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: Traffic is at a standstill on Highway 63 heading south as residents flee with wildfires burning in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: Evacuees camp by a lake as smoke fills the sky near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

: A wildfire rages through Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray Alberta, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: A wildfire rages through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: A helicopter flies past a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires that have already torched homes and other buildings in Canada’s main oil sands city of Fort McMurray, forcing thousands of residents to flee. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: Wildfires burn in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: Wildfires burn in and around Fort McMurray, Alberta, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

: This May 3, 2016 NASA satellite image shows the Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta, Canada. The 100,000 residents of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray were ordered to leave town late May 3 as a monster wildfire swept through the oil sands region, in Alberta province’s largest ever evacuation. No casualties have yet been reported but gas stations exploded and a hotel and one of the town’s many motor home parks went up in flames, according to local media. (AFP/Getty Images)

: A woman picks through donated clothing and goods at a makeshift evacuee center in Lac la Biche, Alberta on May 5, 2016, after fleeing forest fires north of Fort McMurray. Raging wildfires pressed in on the Canadian oil city of Fort McMurray Thursday after more than 80,000 people were forced to flee, abandoning fire-gutted neighborhoods in a chaotic evacuation. No casualties have been reported from the monster blaze, which swept across Alberta’s oil sands region driven by strong winds and hot, dry weather. (COLE BURSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

: Evacuees watch the wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

: A wildfire moves towards the town of Anzac from Fort McMurray, Alberta., on Wednesday May 4, 2016. Alberta declared a state of emergency Wednesday as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires. Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

: A plume of smoke hangs in the air as forest fires rage on in the distance in Fort McMurray, Alberta on May 4, 2016. Numerous vehicles can be seen abandoned on the highways leading from the raging forest fires in Fort McMurray and neighbouring communities have banded together to offer support in the form of food, water, and gasoline. (COLE BURSTON//AFP/Getty Images)

: A police officer wears a mask while controlling a roadblock near a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Raging wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta have moved south, forcing three more communities to evacuate and an emergency operations center to move again , aking it far from the devastated oil sands city of Fort McMurray. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

: An evacuee puts gas in his car on his way out of Fort McMurray, Alberta, as a wildfire burns in the background Wednesday, May 4, 2016. The raging wildfire emptied Canada’s main oil sands city, destroying entire neighborhoods of Fort McMurray, where officials warned Wednesday that all efforts to suppress the fire have failed. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

: Evacuees from the Fort McMurray wildfires arrive at the evacuation center in Edmonton, Canada on Thursday, May 5, 2016. Raging wildfires in the Canadian province of Alberta have moved south, forcing three more communities to evacuate and an emergency operations center to move again , taking it far from the devastated oil sands city of Fort McMurray. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Forest fires rage in Fort McMurray, Alberta

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