A volunteer group of Canadian military veterans and civilians has begun sifting through the wreckage of homes destroyed by the wildfire that gutted most of Lytton.
Team Rubicon Canada was formed in the aftermath of the devastating Fort McMurray wildfire in 2016 and it has helped hundreds of families recover family heirlooms and other items that survived the flames.
Volunteers arrived in June to help staff Lytton’s emergency operations centre and they began combing through residential rubble last week.
Team leader Ric Henderson says a 10-member crew has already recovered a ring that had been passed down by an evacuees’ mother and an urn with a loved one’s remains.
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