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Dr. Karina Pillay, former mayor of Slave Lake, Alta., is shown at her medical clinic in Calgary on Friday, April 16, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh May 09, 2021 - 7:00 AM
Karina Pillay remembers everything about the wildfire. She remembers the chaos the day it hit. The fireballs falling around the town s government building. The traffic gridlock as flames blocked the roads. It was such a life-changing experience, the former Slave Lake mayor said in an interview from Calgary, where she now works as a family doctor. You just can t forget those vivid images in your head.
Pillay was in her third term as mayor when the wildfire burned about one-third of the northern Alberta town 10 years ago this month.
Ten years later: Five things to know about the Slave Lake wildfire
by Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press
Posted May 9, 2021 10:00 am EDT
Last Updated May 9, 2021 at 10:14 am EDT
A wildfire burned about one-third of Slave Lake in northern Alberta in May 2011. Nearly 400 homes and businesses, including an apartment complex, were reduced to ash and rubble when fierce winds whipped flames through town with little warning.
Here are five things we’ve learned about that fire 10 years ago:
How did the wildfire happen?
The Slave Lake wildfire burned through the town from May 14 to May 16, 2011.
Officials with the Alberta government announced in November 2011 that an unknown arsonist recklessly or deliberately ignited the forest fire.
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