by MBC News | Jul 12, 2015 | Current News
From the Emergency Operations Centre – La Ronge Due to the Serious Forest Fire Situation, more specifically, the Lynx Fire — Threatening Highway 102 — near the Stanley Mission Road (highway 915)…this is putting the Planned Convoy for today in...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2015 | Current News
Firefighters continued to hold the lines to the west and northeast of La Ronge, aided in part by east winds yesterday and today. But that good news is balanced by a report from Wildfire Management that a new arm has now extended southwestwards, from the tip of...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2015 | Current News
From Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson – July 12, 2015. Ministry of Highways and Infrustrature notice for permanent residents who are south from Stanley Mission, Grandmother’s Bay, Missinipe, Brabant Lake, Southend and the Athabasca Basin...
by MBC News | Jul 12, 2015 | Current News
From the Emergency Operations Centre: As the fire situation in the Lac La Ronge area progresses, local authorities are examining the criteria they must meet in order to lift the evacuation order. There is still a threat to the three communities of La Ronge, Air Ronge...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2015 | Current News
Local emergency officials are hoping to enable an escorted convoy northwards for permanent residents – and only residents – of these communities: Missinipe, Otter Rapids, Grandmother’s Bay, Stanley Mission, Brabant, Southend and The Athabasca Basin. These...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2015 | Current News
From the La Ronge Emergency Operations Centre: A thick smoke blanketed the La Ronge area as firefighting crews continue to hold the Egg fire from getting much closer to La Ronge. But as one local leader noted, we’ve been going at it full out for three days, and...
by MBC News | Jul 11, 2015 | Current News
UPDATE: Officials now say if the conditions hold, Stanley Mission residents will be able to join the convoy and go home tonight. That is only IF conditions hold into this evening. Local emergency officials are hoping to enable an escorted convoy northwards for...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2015 | Current News
SGI says they will no longer supply new home insurance for homes currently threatened by forest fires. Don Thompson, Vice President for Project Management with SGI, says they established a deadline on July 3 because of the situation. He says they will not take on a...
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2015 | Current News
The mayor of La Loche says the province needs to provide a living allowance for evacuees while they’re away from home. Georgina Jolibois was reacting to a complaint from one of her residents who has no money while staying in a Saskatoon Red Cross evacuation shelter....
by MBC News | Jul 10, 2015 | Current News
The Resort Subdivision of East Trout Lake is being advised that the mandatory evacuation order of July 8, 2015 has been rescinded. Please note an Evacuation Order may need to be reissued due to volatile wildfire situation in northern Saskatchewan and consequent...
