Slave Lake fire takes huge toll on communications infrastructure

By Lesley Hunter

SLAVE LAKE, AB – It’s the not knowing that really bothers Ric McLaren.The general manager of Cable TV Slave Lake said Wednesday that three days after fire ravaged the town in which he has lived with his family for the last eight years was evacuated, he still doesn’t know for sure whether his home or his family-run cable TV business is still standing.“We don’t know anything 100%, but we’re 99% sure that our office and our headend is intact,” he told Cartt.ca in a phone interview. “The only real information that we’ve got has been through Facebook and photo albums...