{"id":211488,"date":"2019-04-26T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T09:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211488"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:59:27","slug":"saskatchewan-wildfire-triggers-state-of-emergency-evacuation-of-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/26\/saskatchewan-wildfire-triggers-state-of-emergency-evacuation-of-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan wildfire triggers state of emergency, evacuation of hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHeavy winds, very dry conditions, have caused that fire to grow very rapidly,\u201d McKay said. \u201cWe strongly encourage people not to use fire in any way until … conditions change.\u201d (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BIGGAR, Sask. — Saskatchewan’s fire commissioner is urging people across the province not to have open fires as a wildfire near the town of Biggar sparked a state of emergency and some evacuations.<\/p>\n

Duane McKay said crews are assessing what impact a change in wind directions might have on the grass fire but that smoke has been moving away from the community about 90 kilometres west of Saskatoon.<\/p>\n

Dozens of patients were moved Tuesday out of the Biggar hospital because of smoke.<\/p>\n

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Authorities transferred 53 long-term care residents to Saskatoon and eight patients went to Rosetown.<\/p>\n

McKay said those battling the fire, including farmers, were also trying to move cattle away from pastureland threatened by the 15-square-kilometre blaze.<\/p>\n

No injuries or burned buildings were reported.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHeavy winds, very dry conditions, have caused that fire to grow very rapidly,\u201d McKay said. \u201cWe strongly encourage people not to use fire in any way until … conditions change.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn’t the only fire burning in the province.<\/p>\n

Later Tuesday, RCMP said a fast-moving grass fire near North Battleford was posing a risk to Sweetgrass First Nation, the village of Prongua and Table Mountain.<\/p>\n

Mounties asked people to avoid the area because it looked like the fire might jump Highway 40.<\/p>\n

The Biggar fire was declared out of control Monday afternoon and a state of emergency was declared early Tuesday by the town and the surrounding rural municipality after the flames came within six to eight kilometres of the community.<\/p>\n

Some residents voluntarily left the area, as shelter space was set up at Biggar’s community hall and a recreation complex in the village of Purdue.<\/p>\n

Firefighters from four outside communities were helping Biggar and area emergency personnel. The provincial emergency response team was also on scene with staff and equipment.<\/p>\n

Farmers were also using their machinery to create fire breaks to stop advancing flames.<\/p>\n

McKay said aircraft were to go over the area to help determine the fire’s origin and identify its cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re exhausted,\u201d said Biggar fire chief Gerry Besse, after spending more than 20 hours battling flames that officials say had so far burned about 100-square-kilometres.<\/p>\n

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He said he expects to be working on the fire for at least another day and that crews would focus on securing a perimeter to protect yard sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s viciously dry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeanne-Marie de Moissac, reeve of the rural municipality, said emotions were running high.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not used to this. We’re tinder dry … that old grass just burns like gasoline.\u201d<\/p>\n

— By Ken Trimble in Edmonton and Stephanie Taylor in Regina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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