As forest fires rage in Jasper, Alta., thousands of people have been forced to flee, including some from Saskatchewan.
For one Saskatoon family, it was a scary evening as one minute they were having supper while camping in Jasper and the next, they were trying to leave with a crowd of others.
“We were kind of at the tail end of almost a month-long canoe and road trip that we had taken,” Bryan Sarauer said. “We’d been up to the Yukon and had done some paddling up there and through Alaska and back through B.C., and we’d come down here.
“Monday, it was a beautiful afternoon. We had been out canoeing not far from the townsite. And we came back in for supper.… When we started to have supper there was smoke and you could see helicopters flying around.”
Sarauer said that as the weather changed and the wind picked …