After a week of wildfires raging through the town of Fort McMurray and the surrounding area, more than 500,000 acres of forest and 2,400 buildings have been destroyed in Alberta, Canada. Rachel Notley, Alberta's premier, said that 90% of Fort McMurray remains intact, though several neighborhoods were complete losses. Reporters were recently allowed in for a look what the wildfire claimed, and what survived. While the last fires in town are put out, and infrastructure repaired, more than 80,000 residents will have to wait at least another two weeks before they can return.
The Ruined Neighborhoods Burned by the Alberta Wildfire
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Read moreA damaged gas grill stands among the debris of dozens of burned homes in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on May 9, 2016, after wildfires forced the evacuation of the town. #
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Read moreSmoke and flames from the wildfire erupt behind a car on the highway near Fort McMurray, on May 7, 2016. #
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Read moreSmoke from the Fort McMurray-area wildfires that forced evacuations hangs over the still-frozen Lac La Loche, across the provincial border in La Loche, Saskatchewan, on May 7, 2016. #
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Read moreSmoke fills the air as a police officer stands guard at a roadblock along Highway 63 leading into Fort McMurray on May 8, 2016, near Fort McMurray. #
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Read moreCrews begin to work on the burned-out remains of the Waterways neighborhood of Fort McMurray on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreThe remains of a partially-melted swingset in a residential neighborhood heavily damaged by a wildfire on May 7, 2016, in Fort McMurray. #
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Read moreThe remains of a charred snowmobile in a residential neighborhood in Fort McMurray on May 6, 2016. #
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Read moreA woman takes photos of the burned ruins of a house in the Abasand neighborhood of Fort McMurray on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreUntouched homes are seen in the background as others, destroyed by fire, are seen in the foreground in the Abasands neighborhood during a media tour of the fire-damaged city of Fort McMurray on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreThe remains of a charred motorcycle in Fort McMurray on May 6, 2016. #
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Read moreSmoke rises from a burned-out area on Highway 63, south of Fort McMurray on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreThe remains of a charred vehicle in a fire-damaged neighborhood where houses in the background appear relatively unharmed, across the street from structures completely consumed by the fire, in Fort McMurray, on May 7, 2016. #
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Read moreA swingset with the seats burned away in a residential neighborhood destroyed by a wildfire on May 6, 2016, in Fort McMurray. #
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Read moreA charred vehicle and home in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Fort McMurray on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreTwo Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers survey damage from the large wildfire that is burning in and around Fort McMurray, on May 7, 2016. #
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Read moreThe remains of charred vehicles sit in a residential neighborhood heavily damaged by a wildfire on May 7, 2016, in Fort McMurray. #
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Read moreThe charred remains of a tree stands over the Beacon Hill neighborhood on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreThe wildfires glow underneath The Northern Lights, near Fort McMurray, Alberta, on May 7, 2016. #
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Read morePam Borges carries her son Max, 4, between portable homes at Canada North Camp Wandering River Lodge in Wandering River, Alberta, on May 7, 2016. The camp, currently home to nearly 400 people, is a refuge for many fleeing the forest fires near Fort McMurray. #
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Read morePhillip McDonald, holding his 10-month-old daughter Ashley, gives a Mother's Day rose to his wife Valerie as they searched for necessities at a donation center established to help evacuees forced from their homes by the Fort McMurray wildfire on May 8, 2016, in Winding River, Alberta. #
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Read moreRodney Howse gets water at a donation center established to help evacuees forced from their homes by the Fort McMurray wildfire on May 8, 2016, in Winding River, Alberta. #
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Read moreDogs who were evacuated with their owners sit in cages at an evacuee center in Lac la Biche, Alberta, on May 9, 2016, amid extensive wildfires. #
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Read moreDella Joseph, a coach driver helping residents of Fort McMurray escape the raging wildfires, breaks down while receiving a Mother’s Day rose from a thankful Albertian while staying at a camp in Wandering River, Alberta, on May 8, 2016. #
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Read moreA resident of Fort McMurray embraces his dog while at the Bold Center in Lac La Biche, Alberta, where evacuees have been living since leaving their Fort McMurray homes due to the raging wildfires, on May 9, 2016. #
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Read moreAn evacuee from the Fort McMurray wildfires uses a laptop at an evacuation center in Lac la Biche, Alberta, on May 7, 2016. #
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