First comes fire, then comes marriage: Busy year for Fort McMurray couple
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — It’s been a busy year for Elise Phillippo and her husband Brandon.
They got hitched, bought a house and had a baby — all against the backdrop of the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history.
Four days before her May 7 wedding, the bride-to-be was planning to pick up her dress from the seamstress after work.
Instead, she was among the more than 88,000 Fort McMurray residents caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic as a fierce wildfire forced the entire northeastern Alberta city to empty.