‘Tight-Knit’ Communities Rally to Help Grateful Fire Evacuees in Northern BC, Alberta, Manitoba

Published on May 15, 2024

Kelleen Blouin was away visiting relatives when her northwestern Manitoba home of Cranberry Portage was forced to evacuate because of an approaching out-of-control wildfire on May 11. Over 500 people were forced to flee the region, some 700 kilometres north of Winnipeg, with almost no time to prepare or pack. “We started hearing about the evacuation about 7:30 p.m.,” she told The Epoch Times on May 14. “So it was just a nightmare for probably eight hours. And then we ended up going to bed and not knowing if we were going to wake up to our house being burned down, or what.” She’s not alone. Over 5,000 people have been evacuated in regions of northern Manitoba and northern British Columbia because of approaching wildfires, and now more people are being asked to evacuate in Alberta....

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