Enterprise, a community of about 100 people in the Northwest Territories, has often opened its doors to fire and flood evacuees in the past, and now many are hoping to help them, in turn, after a devastating wildfire. Only about a dozen houses are still standing, with three dozen others in the small hamlet destroyed by quick-moving fire.
Enterprise is on the border of Alberta and is known as the “gateway to the North.” While fire has come close before, resident Tammy Neal says, she never thought it would get them. Enterprise has prided itself on being the first FireSmart community in the Northwest Territories, part of a national program to prevent wildfire damage.
