BERMAN: All right, a desperate battle against the wildfire raging out of control right now in western Canada. Thousands are being airlifted out, and just hours from now, a huge evacuation convoy of cars will roll out of the danger zone. But look at this. The flames getting so close to that highway. CNN's Paul Vercammen is live in Edmonton with the very latest. Paul, these pictures are just horrible.</s>PAUL VERCAMMEN, CORRESPONDENT, CNN: They're absolutely astonishing, John. Many of the evacuees are going to wind up here at this expo in Edmonton behind me. Fifty fires in all raging right now. Seven of them out of control. The worst of it in Ft. McMurray. A spoke with Michel Chamberland. He shot dramatic dash cam video as he escaped the inferno.</s>MICHEL CHAMBERLAND, ESCAPED WILDFIRE: Driving through hell as those flames were -- they were bright. They were big. The smoke. The embers. Your eyes started to get watery. It's a -- it was a -- I can't describe that scene. It was a lot.</s>VERCAMMEN: The weather, a little cooler. That should help, but it's also very dry, and they do have wind gusts. They will attack this blaze with 22 tankers, 1,100 men and a lot of heavy equipment today, John, as they try -- excuse me -- I should say Alisyn -- as they try to get all of this under control. Back to you.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, Paul. Thanks so much
85,000 Evacuated from Raging Wildfire.