by MBC News | Jul 10, 2015
A university professor who studies natural disasters like wild fires says the people displaced from their homes will need a recovery process. Dr. Judith Kulig says evacuees will go through a grieving process when they eventually return home. “After a disaster where...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2015
Here is the latest update from the La Ronge Emergency Operations Centre: Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for the town of La Ronge, Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Village of Air Ronge and community of Pinehouse. There was not a lot of movement by the wildfire...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
For now, Premier Brad Wall wants the focus to remain on keeping people safe and putting out fires not what the disaster is costing the provincial budget. So far, more than 13,000 people have been forced from their homes, the Canadian Armed Forces have been called in...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
The Opposition NDP says the government should hire all qualified firefighting applicants to help battle the fires. Yesterday, the government put out a call to any volunteer firefighters who wanted to help battle the fires in the north and according to Chief Tammy...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
Civilians are being trained to pick up where the military leaves off. Plans are already in the works to replace hundreds of soldiers on the front lines of Saskatchewan’s forest fires with civilians. A call went out yesterday for paid volunteers and by the end of the...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
No structures or homes in the La Ronge tri-community area have been destroyed or damaged by wildfires as of this report. Fire crews are continuing to hold the line on both the north west flank behind the La Ronge industrial park and Bigstone area, and the east flank...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
From the Emergency Operations Centre: For the second day in a row, the fire flank northwest of La Ronge was held and did not advance any closer to the community, 3-4 km distant. Wildfire Management had aerial drops supporting ground crews along that line, and they...
by MBC News | Jul 9, 2015
UPDATE – JULY 10, 2015 The Resort Subdivision of East Trout Lake is being advised that the mandatory evacuation order of July 8, 2015 has been rescinded. Please note an Evacuation Order may need to be reissued due to volatile wildfire situation in northern...
by MBC News | Jul 8, 2015
Saskatchewan’s commissioner of emergency planning says it could be a long wait for people hoping to go back to their homes in northern Saskatchewan. Duane McKay says firefighting crews are doing all they can but people will not be allowed back until the fire...
by MBC News | Jul 8, 2015
Federal MP Rob Clarke says the federal government will do everything they can to ensure people in northern Saskatchewan are safe and that the fire response will continue. The Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River MP met with members of the media in Prince Albert Tuesday...
