‘We are rebuilding:’ Hope, uncertainty one year after Fort McMurray fire
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Farid El-Hayouni and Ibtissam Saidi are almost certain they won’t live on Prospect Drive again.
The couple had a duplex on the street in Fort McMurray’s north end, where they lived with their three young sons and El-Hayouni’s parents.
They loved the place.
They had a beautiful view of a nearby pond from their bedroom window and, on warm nights, their block would fill with the sounds of children playing.