A Ride Into the Ashes of Fort McMurray | VICE News
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The city’s supposed to be off limits for anyone else, with police standing guard at checkpoints, but VICE News secured a seat in a caravan taking in supplies, and got a rare, early look at the devastation.
It’s the first time Haas, a truck driver from Fort McMurray, has been back to the city since it was evacuated earlier in the week. It’s an unbearable tragedy for the hub of Canada’s oil and gas sector that was already reeling from layoffs and economic hardship due to plummeting crude prices.
He and the rest of his colleagues have been dropping off supplies to evacuation camps and frontline workers in Fort McMurray. Earlier in the day they delivered a massive tanker truck filled with potable water.