Police have opened a section of a major highway in west-central Alberta that had been blocked by a grass fire.
RCMP in Edson said in a media release Monday afternoon the fire had made a 15-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 impassable between Highway 47 and Range Road 192, about 10 kilometres west of the town, and was caused by a pipeline explosion.
They said the cause of the explosion is unknown.
Edson is 195 kilometres west of Edmonton.