The Flamingo Inn in the northern Alberta town of High Level has been hosting wildfire evacuees for more than a year.
Wildfires forced thousands of Albertans to temporarily leave their homes this spring, but hundreds of residents are still grappling with the effects of last year's fires, having no homes yet to return to.
More than a year later, many residents have returned to Fox Lake but hundreds are still living elsewhere. Ray Supernault, the chair of the East Prairie Métis Settlement, said the community received funding from the province to rebuild the 14 homes that had been occupied immediately preceding the fire. He said residents moved into new modular homes before Christmas.
She has been travelling back and forth between High Level and Fox Lake and is waiting for the power in her temporary tiny home to be hooked up. Goulet, the spokesperson for Indigenous Services Canada, said ISC has provided more than $380 million to First Nations in Alberta for response and recovery activities related to last year's wildfire season.Emergency Management Assistance Program
Police officers are working out of a trailer until a new detachment is built, RCMP Const. Kristen Marson said. Ryan Tyndall with Indigenous Services Canada said water released from a BC Hydro dam hindered the community's ability to use their ice bridges.
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