A wildfire that is raging across the province of Alberta is due to become Canada's costliest natural disaster later today, after reaching the size of Warwickshire.
The blaze, which has forced the evacuation of 88,000 people from the city of Fort McMurray, doubled in size on Saturday to around 494,000 acres, according to firefighters.
The English county of Warwickshire is 488,000 acres.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale warned that the situation in the parched Alberta oil sands region was "unpredictable and dangerous".
"This remains a big, out of control, dangerous fire," he added.
Officials said the inferno is being propelled by high winds northeast towards neighbouring Saskatchewan province.
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