‘Surreal’: former N. Battleford resident evacuates Jasper
On Monday night Kate Abrahamson and her Jasper Rafting Adventures crew watched online as their river runs near the Athabasca Falls were overcome by flames.
“We were watching it burn from the top of our run to our take-out and then another rafting company has one of their put-ins just two kilometres from where our take-out is,” she said.
“We heard that their whole compound burned.”
As the rest of the country woke up to news Thursday morning that the wildfire, which had been encroaching the beloved historic town, finally swept through the community Wednesday evening, the experience has been “surreal” for Abrahamson.