More evacuations from Pelican Narrows wildfires
There have been more evacuations from the Pelican Narrows wildfires and the situation remains “volatile,” as over 2,700 evacuees continue to await word on when they’ll be able to return home.
Wind whipped up one of the three blazes in the area – the Granite Fire- which has now grown from 107,000 to 110,000 hectares and that forced the evacuation of the twenty residents in Tyrell Lake. The Preston and Wilkin Fires remained stable.
Meanwhile, there is some positive news on the transportation front. Highway 106 east to Creighton from the junction with Highway 135, which has been closed for two weeks, is reopening for escorted travel.
“Those convoys will run between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m., then from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.,” Doug Wakabayashi with the Ministry of Highways said in a media call Tuesday. “But that’s as conditions and fire activity allow.”