Bamfield Main Road is set to reopen this Friday, after a months-long closure that left the small community of Bamfield on Vancouver Island’s west coast effectively cut off from Port Alberni, the next closest city.

Bamfield has a tiny population of 150 people, with many residents accessing everyday essentials like groceries, banks, mail and doctors in Port Alberni, making the journey along the unpaved Bamfield Main Road to do so.

But the road has been closed since Aug. 11, when the Mount Underwood wildfire ripped through the Alberni Valley, causing damage to the road and surrounding area.

While the fire has long since been extinguished, the Ministry of Transportation and Transit (MOTT) had deemed the road unsafe, and has been undertaking a massive cleanup effort in recent weeks — forcing

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