EDMONTON — Some students from a remote, northern Alberta community will mark the first day of classes in a school that's not their own on Tuesday after a menacing wildfire destroyed half of all structures in their hamlet this summer.

Northland School Division says this school year is the second one in a row that more than two dozen elementary and high school students from Chipewyan Lake are attending schools in Wabasca, a hamlet located about 135 kilometres south of their homes.

The superintendent and CEO of the division says even though Chipewyan Lake School was one of the structures that didn't burn down after a wildfire ripped through the community in late May, the school is still not safe to attend, and the Chipewyan's roughly 100 residents remain under an evacuation order.

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