Firefighting efforts and favorable weather conditions on Friday stopped the growth of forest fires in northern Alberta that have prompted evacuations and disrupted crude-oil production, provincial officials said. The size of the out-of-control wildfire is unchanged from Thursday, at around 1.25 million acres, and local authorities expressed confidence they could prevent it from spreading due in part to cooler, damper weather. “We expect to hold this fire in place over the weekend,” said Chad Morrison, the Alberta forest ministry’s chief wildfire official, at a news conference in Edmonton. No oil-sands production facilities have been damaged by the fires, but at the height of the threat, Canadian oil production dropped by at least one million barrels a day, or about 40% of the country’s total oil-sands output. Mr. Morrison said blazes near two major […]