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Planes, trains and automobiles on rails taking hundreds of fire evacuees out of Pukatawagan

Planes, trains and automobiles on rails taking hundreds of fire evacuees out of Pukatawagan

CBC
Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:43 AM GMT

A massive wildfire crept within sight of residents in the northern Manitoba community of Pukatawagan Friday night as hundreds of people awaited evacuation by any available means.

Ralph Caribou, a co-ordinator with University College of the North helping with the evacuation, estimated the fire had reached within 200 metres west across Pukatawagan Lake as of about 9 p.m.

"If you stand just outside the nurse's station, you can see the flames on the other side of the lake," he said.

"The trees, they range between 50 and 100 feet high. So those flames are going just a little bit past that. And then the smoke coming out of it is really dark."

The out-of-control fire was detected Wednesday and had grown to about 10,000 hectares by Friday evening, according to the Manitoba Wildfire Service.

Thick smoke from the fire has hindered air evacuation of the roughly 2,500 residents living in the community on Mathias Colomb Cree Nation.

WATCH | Residents wait to be airlifted as smoke fills the air:

A Canadian military transport plane was sent on Friday to airlift people to Winnipeg — about 700 kilometres to the southeast — wasn't able to land due to poor visibility, according to a spokesperson with CFB 17 Wing in Winnipeg.

A number of other smaller planes have been able to land throughout the day, and a spokesperson for the 1 Canadian Air Division said the military would attempt to land again later Friday evening.

The bulk of evacuees are being taken out by rail. A train consisting of three coaches, four boxcars, one caboose, and five hi-rail trucks — pickups with the ability to drive on rails — will make a three-hour journey to Sherridon, Man., about 70 kilometres south, Caribou said.

The community is planning three runs of 750 people at a time, with the first load departing Friday evening and arriving at about midnight. The evacuees will then be taken by bus to either Winnipeg or Flin Flon, he said.

Caribou expects most of the remaining evacuees could be out of the community by noon on Saturday.

On Friday morning, the airport at Pukatawagan was full of people who expected to leave sometime much earlier.

"I'm very stressed out, I'm worried," Serena Dumas, who lives in the community, told CBC News.

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