Incredible new video of Alberta fire tornado

Following an unseasonably warm winter, Alberta is experiencing dangerously dry conditions this April and most of the province is currently under either a fire ban, fire restriction or fire advisory. Late Saturday night, St. Albert Fire Local 2130 tweeted a new video of a grass fire that broke out Thursday afternoon at Ray Gibbon Drive near Big Lake. The blaze forced Vincent Pashko of St. Albert Fire Services to jump into the Sturgeon River to avoid the flames. Luckily, he suffered only minor burns.

• ‘I could feel the heat impinging on my shoulders’: St. Albert firefighter jumps into river to escape flames of grass fire