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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A 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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Smoke 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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Untouched 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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The 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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Pam 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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Phillip 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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Rodney 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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Della 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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A 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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