The rain that Fort Smith experienced over the long weekend served to not only sate the hunger of the wild fires in the town’s immediate area, but also to sooth those of the community who lived with the stress of possible evacuation for an extended time.
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Wildfires that ravaged Alberta in recent weeks show being prepared before disaster strikes is a town’s first defense and can make the difference between catastrophe and survival.
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The massive fire that has burned through Richardson backcountry and into Wood Buffalo National Park has become Alberta’s main priority fire.
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Fort Chipewyan’s connection with the rest of the world is in danger of being cut off as the massive Richardson backcountry wildfire burns ever closer to the Birch Mountain communications tower.
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The terrible Slave Lake fire devastated that community, but it could have as easily been any other northern town.
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For a former resident of Slave Lake with present ties through work to Fort Chipewyan, the fire that destroyed so much of his old community hit like a ‘punch in the stomach.’
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