A Syrian, she arrived in Fort McMurray just 70 days before she became a fire evacuee, one of six members of her family sponsored as refugees by her son, Fahed Labek, a chemist in the oil sands town.
Such fires across the northern US and Canada – which last month forced the evacuation of 80,000 from the Alberta tar sands town of Fort McMurray – were projected to increase over the coming decades as the climate continues to warm.
The Calgary-based energy company, Enbridge, now plans to build a 730-mile pipeline from the tar sands town of Brudherheim across British Columbia to the Pacific coast, where it would generate some 525,000 barrels of oil per day for export to Asia.
The strip of sand in town feels more like a dirt driveway than a tropical beach.
The first is the jungly Costa Ballena on the Central Pacific, extending 18 miles down Highway 34 from the grey-sand surfer town of Dominical to mini gastroville Ojochal.
The beach is half a block a way, and you even get a cute, hand-drawn map to guide you around the sand-street town.
At first, she seems like the responsible one, but once they get to the dingy, sand-bleached town, she wigs out, robs him and flees to the relative safety of Dubai.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow visited the sand-smothered town and its therapeutic feeding centre, helping to raise awareness of the approaching nutrition crisis.
The eagle arrived here in October after he was hit by a plane in the stormy island town of Sand Point and somehow survived, rushed to emergency wing surgery.
