Tag Archives: Fire

In the wake of unprecedented wildfire evacuations and a nine-figure firefighting bill, northern communities and the province of Saskatchewan need to rethink the way they prepare for and respond to wil...

He's battled blazes for 31 years, but now Saskatoon's top firefighter is hanging up his helmet for the last time. Saskatoon Fire Department chief Dan Paulsen will retire at the end of the mo...

The Saskatoon Fire Department says no one was hurt when the outside of a Rosewood home caught fire Friday afternoon.Police received multiple calls of thick, black smoke coming from the back of 312 Led...

A major fire has destroyed a business in downtown North Battleford. The Bargain Shop on 101st Street near city hall is mostly rubble on Thursday morning. The fire department was called around 4:30 a.m...

Driving his boat around the edges of Weyakwin Lake, Doug Hrycuik said he feels very lucky that there wasn't a slight wind shift because it would have taken out the little cottage community he calls ho...

Depending on which way the wind blew the scene around the La Ronge regional airport shifted from a wall of smoke to crowning flames as the Eli and Egg fires converged in.Among the airport personnel st...

Some volunteer firefighters in La Ronge got a nice pick-me-up this week from children in the Lloydminster area as a care package full of snacks and handwritten cards arrived on Tuesday."When we opened...

Ramona Ross was already hard at work at the local gas station on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation Thursday morning as more than 1,000 people returned to the community after nearly three weeks of evacuati...

The premiers of Saskatchewan and British Columbia would like to see a national approach to fighting forest fires, fearing this year's wildfires are the new normal.Saskatchewan's Brad Wall said Thursda...

Flora Kraus sat in the little community office in Weyakwin Tuesday afternoon organizing how to get returning residents water and access to a landfill. The administrator for the community could step ou...