Alberta's latest emergency alert said firefighters, aircraft and heavy equipment are working to contain the fire, and that more resources are on the way.
Hundreds of homes were damaged, and in a rare move, Israel called up military reservists to join overstretched police and firefighters and made use of an international fleet of firefighting aircraft sent by several countries.
Firefighters and aircraft are on scene, the RFS says.
Firefighters and aircraft are battling both blazes as strengthening winds increase fire activity in the area.
Fire officials began to speak with optimism on Monday that, at a minimum, the blazes were spreading less rapidly, while the nation's fire brigades and army continued to try to control the fires, aided by other European firefighters and aircraft, as well as scores of citizen brigades.
About 700 firefighters and aircraft were fighting that blaze.
Firefighters using aircraft made water drops along the eastern and southern edges of the blaze, which was held to just over 500 acres, Los Angeles County Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp said.
Mr. Lapensee, who also worked as a medic and a firefighter, was an aircraft buff who joined the transplant program so he could "get free plane rides and do something rewarding, help to save people," said Jon Ichesco, the fire chief in Ypsilanti.
No firefighters died in the park as a result of the fires, but one firefighter and an aircraft pilot died in separate incidents outside the park.
In the annals of wildfires, this accident would rank as the deadliest involving firefighters on an aircraft and the deadliest over all since 14 firefighters were killed July 2 , 1994 on the side of a ravine in Glenwood Springs, Colo., according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
