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Old 05-05-2016, 01:28 PM   #844
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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy View Post
We lost much (most?) of Slave Lake and much of Fort McMurray. If we don't do this in northern communities I wonder which is the next community that will be destroyed. If $5 billion is the cost to rebuild FM (I read it was something like $800 million for Slave Lake) I think appropriate measures are necessary or this will happen again somewhere.
A government program already exists, but isn't widely adopted, frankly I have no idea why.

http://wildfire.alberta.ca/fire-smar...t-program.aspx
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