Following the May fires, residents of the area began voicing their concerns about safety after many were stuck in traffic trying to access Hammonds Plains Road.
A vintage Campbell's soup bowl in one family's home not only survived the Halifax-area wildfire, it was salvaged last year from a cottage destroyed by Hurricane Fiona.
An emergency alert was sent out in Nova Scotia on Friday to notify more residents that it was safe to return home, after wildfires forced at least 16,000 people to evacuate.