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Suffocating smoke hovers over Fort McMurray

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Visible from space, the smoke that chokes Ft. McMurray is the floating marker of destruction below.

Fleeing citizens have driven through it and pilots have flown through it to fight the wildfire that has burned 1600 homes and forced tens of thousands to flee.

Despite the disaster below there is a horrible beauty in these images.


Jason Franson/The Canadian Press


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Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images


Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP


Jason Franson/ The Canadian Press


Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press


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