Wildfires force upwards of 30,000 people to flee in Saskatchewan and Manitoba [Video]

After fleeing the rapidly spreading wildfires abutting her north-central Saskatchewan community, Sandra Thompson found shelter hundreds of kilometres away from the shores of Lac La Ronge at a friend’s apartment in Saskatoon this week.

As she closed her eyes in bed, however, what came was not sleep. It was exhaustion and deepening anxiety. All she could think about was home – what little of it may remain, and when or if she would be able to go back there again.

“If only people knew how devastating this feeling is. How it doesn’t seem to leave you, like you’ve been thrown into a movie about your life and have no control over anything,” Ms. Thompson told The Globe and Mail. “I’m grateful that I survived and found a safe place. But it feels like I’ve lost everything, anything that was ever mine.”

Across the country, more than 200 wildfires are burning, mostly in Western Canada. As of …