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Ten years on, the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire is still teaching Albertans and informing policy. “Even a very large developed community in northern Alberta is not immune from the impact of wildfire, and that really hit hard with a lot of people, and I think there are some lessons that we’ve taken on as an organization that and we’re sort of living those changes now,” said Christie Tucker, information unit manager with Alberta Wildfire of the May 3, 2016 fire that ravaged the northern Alberta city, causing the evacuation of roughly 90,000 residents at the time. …If Fort McMurray had its lessons, one is that wildfire risk isn’t just out where the wild things are. The wildland urban interface is where Albertans are living and working up in resource-based industries, up against what used to be wilderness. That is a space the province is paying a lot of attention to, Tucker said.