Among the many memories and treasured family heirlooms lost in the fire that raced through suburban Halifax was a piece of the Berlin Wall
belonging to Terri and Lutz Kottwitz. Most of the couple’s belongings were destroyed when wildfires levelled their home in Hammonds Plains, as well as the neighbouring ForestKids Early Learning Centre daycare owned by Terri Kottwitz.
When the fire broke out on May 28, Terri Kottwitz was at her local grocery store about four kilometres from her home when she saw smoke unfurling from somewhere in her neighbourhood. Kottwitz offered the woman room at her daycare centre, thinking evacuees could use the space. The daycare typically hosted 82 children between the ages of three months and 12 years, but had closed for the day that Sunday afternoon.Wildfires rage across the country from B.C.
“ took our house but didn’t take our little house with my husband’s big garage,” she said. “It took the centre but it didn’t take the other two buildings that were right beside the centre. It took the outhouse and the surrounding woods.”
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