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Authoritative provincial wildfire status. Drives both the direct-threat angle and the upstream cause of Edmonton smoke events. Two active fires today means a quiet fire day — worth stating explicitly for reader reassurance.
LICENCE LINKED 2026-10-12 (DECISIONS #42), by a chain the owner may review: the services state no licence themselves (copyrightText and the ArcGIS items' licenseInfo empty), but open.alberta.ca offers 'Alberta Wildfire Status Map' (dataset alberta-wildfire-status-map) under the Open Government Licence – Alberta, and that map's own configuration (ArcGIS item 0e45bd0ef9814d5e9ec3f87900a4cfe9) draws this layer. OGL-Alberta covers information 'offered for use under the terms of this licence'.
WIRED 2026-08-23: read by pipeline/sources/wildfire.py as the `wildfire` fixture for the page (model-free; raises on failure so the rail records −1). Rendering is the front end's; contract in docs/INSTRUMENTS.md. Read together with the municipal layer; 1 provincial fire (Grande Prairie area, out of control), none within 250 km on 2026-08-22. Found only by extracting FeatureServer URLs from the ArcGIS Experience Builder app config at arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/0e45bd0ef9814d5e9ec3f87900a4cfe9/data?f=json — alberta.ca/wildfire-status exposes no data endpoint. STRONGLY SEASONAL (near-zero Oct-Apr). Parentheses in the service name must be URL-safe in some clients. Sibling services verified HTTP 200: Active_Municipal_Wildfire_Prod/FeatureServer/4, Wildfire_year_to_date/FeatureServer/0, Active_Mutual_Aid_Wildfires/FeatureServer/0. Ignore the Alberta_Wildfire_Dummy_Legend layers — placeholders. Catalogued but NOT WIRED, found 2026-08-21 on a second pass: the first wiring audit matched this source on a generic path segment such as 'news' or 'items' and wrongly counted it as referenced. Its mode has no generic collector and no code names its endpoint. Disabled so the registry stops counting it as coverage; the entry is kept because the endpoint was verified. See ops/wiring.py.
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Alberta mode is a guy from Edmonton commenting on the news, and the guy is a machine. One or two lines an item — what somebody who has lived here his whole life would say reading it out to his mates.
It is not the story. The headline above each comment is the real one, the source link below it goes to the real reporting, and the plain edition is one click away. He is not summarising anything and he is not a reporter; he is the guy at the shop with an opinion about it.
He swears when a sentence wants it. He is rude about council, developers, the province, the weather, the roads and the Oilers, and never about the people in the story. He holds about a dozen opinions that contradict each other and he is fine with that.
Some of it will sit wrong anyway. When it does, that is on us and we would rather hear it than not: [email protected], and we will pull the line.
Two things get no comment at all, and they are not negotiable: anyone charged or before a court, who has a trial coming and is entitled to have us stay out of it, and a suicide. Anything you need to ACT on — a tip line, an advisory, an evacuation — keeps its full text underneath the comment, because a phone number does not go behind a joke.
The plain edition is the record, and it is the default. It is one click away and it is where you should check anything before you act on it.