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Pembina River Tubing manager Cheryl Harris vividly remembers the day her business near Evansburg and Entwistle burned to the ground.

Through a security camera feed, she watched as the Range Road 70 wildfire tore through Parkland County on May 5, 2023, destroying the popular summer destination 106 kilometres west of Edmonton.

“It was actually our wedding anniversary when the wildfire came through and took out our business,” she told 630 CHED’s This Morning with Stacey Brotzel and Daryl McIntyre on Thursday.

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The business is a popular summer attraction.

Those looking to float the Pembina River launch from the property and float for several hours downstream until they reach Pembina Provincial Park, where buses take patrons back to the river tubing company’s parking lot.

The wildfire last spring made it impossible in 2023, however.

According to a November 2023 investigation by Henricks and Associates Ltd., a company that determines wildfire origin and …

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