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Joe McWilliams

Freelance contributer

Joe McWilliams has been a reporter and editor at the Slave Lake Lakeside Leader for 34 years. Came for two years, never left. Fires and floods are an inescapable aspect of life in a place like Slave Lake. In 2011 they had both. This year too, although the worst fires were elsewhere. Never a dull moment.

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    First Person

    I never thought a wildfire could sweep through my town. Until it did

    It didn’t occur to Joe McWilliams — not even once — that fire could sweep into his town, sending him running and abandoning all that he owned to the flames. But what happened in Slave Lake, Alta., in 2011, changed everything for him.
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