The Fort McMurray recovery: lessons from the Slave Lake rebuild

Discarded refrigerators, full of spoiled food, were picked up in Slave Lake after the May 2011 wildfire. (John Ulan/Canadian Press )
Discarded refrigerators, full of spoiled food, were picked up in Slave Lake after the May 2011 wildfire. (John Ulan/Canadian Press )

By CBC News, May 14, 2016 

‘Be patient. It is going to take a long time to rebuild and you want to do it right.’

Thousands of refrigerators were stacked three, four, and five units high, forming a ramshackle wall that stretched across an Alberta landfill.

The refrigerators belonged to the residents of Slave Lake, forced to flee a wildfire that tore through their corner of Alberta’s boreal forest, turning the residents into evacuees for two weeks in 2011.

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