(Bloomberg) – Waseem Amin has been making big plans for his return home to Fort McMurray, the Canadian oil-sands town devastated by wildfires that curtailed more than a million barrels of daily crude output last month.

Amin, 38, who spent the better part of a month living in a student housing compound after fires forced 80,000 people to evacuate the town, is counting on rebuilding efforts to give his trucking business a boost following a nearly two-year-long recession caused by an oil glut. He was one of the lucky ones — his apartment largely escaped the fire, he said Wednesday as he made his way to survey the damage.

"Everything is going to pick up now," Amin said, standing outside an information center clutching a bag of supplies. "I have to help the community clean up."

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