Some evacuees leery, others happy to be going home

“I’m ready to go back to Wollaston and live on life the way I was,” he said.

Not everyone was as enthusiastic. A teacher from Wollaston Lake said she had some concerns with going back to the community so soon.

“I don’t know how I really feel about it, though I don’t feel good. From the news last night they showed the community and the fire was still out of control, so I’m a little bit leery and a little bit afraid of that,” she said.

Her colleague added that he agrees and is worried for the children.

“As a teacher I don’t know what to feel because they might even cancel the school year,” he said.

“It is going to be hard to see the community the way it is now. There’s probably nothing around like no bush or anything like that. It’s going to be hard for them to see that.”

Another man staying in Prince Albert said he was kind of sad that some people had to stay as far south as Saskatoon.

“I stayed here, it was not too bad, but there were too many people and it was crowded.”

He said that the people he met in Prince Albert were nice and would like to come back under different circumstances,

The belief is that being in Prince Albert was a better place to be evacuated because it had a family feel and it is where the elders were located.

Evacuees said Saskatoon is where more of the young people stayed.

While many said they were happy, a few concerns about how bad the smoke will be in the communities. They said it was much scarier at the beginning of the fire when they weren’t sure what was going to happen.

sfroese@panow.com

by Stephanie Froese

Some evacuees leery, others happy to be going home

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