The scope of the devastation from the wildfire is coming to light today as media get a close-up look of the situation.

VOCM’s Linda Swain is part of a delegation being bused through the area today.

She says the devastation in Adam’s Cove is quite extensive. There’s nothing but rubble left of the schoolhouse, a historic building, for example. You can see where houses once stood because of the nails on the ground – blown out from the heat.

Swain says there will be a lot of tears and pain, so she wishes to be selective in the images which are shown in order to avoid aggravating the hurt.

“Public buildings are fair game,” she says, and this Adam’s Cove schoolhouse is a testament to the extraordinary power of this particular fire.”

The evacuation order has been lifted for the remainder of

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