Fort McMurray evacuee shares his story
Imagine losing your home, life savings and not knowing what’s next in life. That’s the way Fort McMurray evacuee Bobby Kinley is feeling after being evacuated nearly a week ago.
Kinley stayed as long as he could before being forced to evacuate last Wednesday, May 4.
“It’s not a very good feeling, believe me. I stayed there all afternoon putting fires out around my motor home and truck, hoping this would just go away but it just kept getting worse and worse,” Kinley said.
“In the end, about 2 a.m. they finally said that’s enough and either take your motor home or truck but you got to get out. I didn’t have any gas for the motor home and if I took the truck then I’d have nothing to live in. So the municipality gave me gas to get out and the emergency operations centre gave me some chips, cookies and pop to go, got some more gas from them and came here,” he added.