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.” Breaking news from Canada and around the world sent to your email, as it happens.
Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy . Sarauer said that as the weather changed and the wind picked up, umbrellas were flying down the street.
Story continues below advertisement They soon found out roads were closing and people were being evacuated. “We started noticing that the lineups at the gas stations were by then blocks long,” Sarauer said. They went back.