The stories coming out of the Fort Mac and Edmonton area, continue to amaze me in how ordinary citizens to small and big business are stepping up to help the tens of thousands of people who were forced to hastily evacuate Fort Mac with very little in the way of personal affects when the fire unpredictably jumped the Athabasca river.

Retailers pitch in to help Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees

A week in Hell: How Fort McMurray burned
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock