HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. — Carrol Johnston points at flowering peonies in her otherwise charred garden as she walks through her property in a northern Alberta Metis…
“Our priority is rebuilding,” she adds.
Johnston has been living in a hotel room with her cat and two dogs in High Prairie, about 35 kilometres northwest of the Metis settlement, since the evacuation.Not all of the 14 families in the community displaced by the wildfire chose to stay in hotels. “I had my pump ready, my cistern was on, but I was told to leave,” Bellerose says of the day the wildfire approached.
Bellerose’s ranch-style home is gone but he continues to maintain his land, mowing the lush grass and planting new rows of bushes as he waits for the modular home. Mallory Bigcharles, a 24-year-old mother of four, stands on the front deck of her house surrounded by burned forest and fallen trees.
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