Waterton residents on edge as growing wildfire threatens park’s Alberta townsite
WATERTON LAKES NATIONAL PARK, Alta. — Mandy Mulcahy and her fiance Dave Formosa were watching nervously for news as a wildfire spread closer to the Waterton Lakes National Park townsite in southwestern Alberta.
The pair work at Vimy’s Lounge and Grill — she as a server, he as a sous chef — and have been living in a staff apartment in the small community with their three children since the spring.
“It’s a day-to-day thing,” Mulcahy said from a bed and breakfast in nearby Mountain View, Alta., where the family has hunkered down since Friday’s mandatory evacuation order.
“We get the fire updates and we get a little bit worried — a little bit more every day.”