‘We don’t have insurance on the memories’: wildfires destroy Manitoba vacation getaways [Video]

As clouds of smoke start to lift in parts of the province, Manitobans are learning about the devastation left in the wake of the wildfires. 

John Podworniak and his family lost their Beresford Lake cabin to the wildfire that’s still burning in Nopiming Provincial Park. He said he saw aerial pictures of the blaze online, and had a feeling that his cabin was gone.

“I’ve been told there’s nothing left,” said Podworniak.

“We kind of expected it but it was hard … you’re numb from the news.”

Podworniak built the cabin himself, and shared it with a friend. He spent years enjoying the remote, lakefront property with his children and grandchildren.

“Taking the kids up there, they’re swimming in the lake. We could go fishing then they’d get on the bow of the boat, they could jump in the lake.”

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