Point Roberts’ fire chief says all town’s businesses on verge of ruin

The Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine. (File photo)

A community teetering on the edge of financial collapse — that is the reality that the fire chief of Point Roberts says the U.S./Canada border closure has forced upon his town.

After 16 months of the border being shut to both sides, Point Roberts Fire Chief Christopher Carleton says the small, waterfront town is all but destroyed.

The community shares a land border only with Canada, and can only be accessed from the rest of Washington by boat or by driving a short distance through British Columbia. It sits on the end of a

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