Enterprise, a community of about 100 people on the highway north of the Alberta boundary, lost 80 per cent of its structures.
“Once the fire got to that point, nothing could be done,” said Blair Porter, the hamlet’s senior administrative officer.The hamlet traces its humble beginnings to a gas station built soon after the Mackenzie Highway from Grimshaw, Alta., was completed in 1948.
The community had been watching the fire off in the distance in August. Mayor Michael St. Amour said territorial officials told the hamlet it was being monitored. “There was no time,” Porter said. “It was a wall of smoke. I’ve never seen that before. It was from ground to sky. You couldn’t see anything above it.”
Community members questioned why there weren’t more firefighting efforts on the ground to save more houses.
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