By Mariam Ibrahim, Postmedia News
Reflection:
One third of Slave Lake was lost to a wildfire on Monday. The mayor has stated half of the buidling and homes in Slave Lake are destroyed, also destroyed in the fire was the town hall and library but the hospital school and RCMP detachment is the only things that remain. The managing director of Alberta's emergency management said that there are no reports of injuries or anything and that 95% of Slave Lake hs been evacuated, and now the focus is for the firefighters to suppress this fire. Firefighters from other cities like Calgary and Edmonton are coming to help there are 125 firefighters right now and another 100 are on there way. As of Monday there were 115 wildfires all over the province and 36 of those wild fires are declared out of control included those areound Loon Lake and Fort McMurry. The province has a total of 900 firefighters 20 tankers and around a hundred helicoptors and on Monday 120 are coming from British Columbia to assist and more on Tuesday from Ontario, it was also reported that a 25,000 plus hectare wildfire is out of control in Richardson Backcountry and is burning across the Athabasca river. The evacuation sites have been set near neighbouring towns and the sites go bakc as far as Edmonton.
Everybody getting together to help those they dont even know shows the unity of this country. I believe that in all this destruction you see the manpower of this country a town which has the population of 7000 is being assisted by the entire country. This town wouldnt even be in the top ten populated towns in Canada but still people from everywhere are coming together to help maybe this is why we all come to Canada. This is the unity and strength that others country's dont have and this is what makes Canada great. So this is a great example of how good we have it here in Canada where everybody is ready to help another without anything in return.
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