Saskatoon woman organizes donations for Slave Lake fire evacuees

A woman originally from Alberta who now lives in Saskatoon is organizing a donation drop-off for people forced to evacuate from Slave Lake, Alta.

Tara Wilkins used to live just hours away from the community, and even experienced an evacuation. “Fire trucks showing up at three in the morning, blasting their horns and sirens is really scary,” said Wilkins.

Wildfires ripped through Slave Lake on Monday, destroying a large chunk of the northern community and forcing the entire town to evacuate.

Wilkins wanted to do something to help out, so she asked Kindersley Transport to donate a truck to take supplies to a central warehouse in Edmonton. From there, the supplies will be distributed to evacuation centres near Slave Lake.

Wilkins said they're asking for baby food, toiletries, bug spray, non-perishable food and something else that's in high demand.

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“Pillows, I heard one of the shelters requested 200 brand new pillows because they have people on cots but no pillows.”

The truck will be in Saskatoon's Stonebridge Walmart parking lot from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, where Wilkins and other volunteers will be accepting and sorting donations.

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