Cottage and Lodge evacuation..

[irishfield]

Emergency officials advised hundreds of residents in northwestern Ontario to evacuate their cottages Saturday as a wildfire raged out of control in the region.

 

The fire began at an unattended campsite across the border in Northern Minnesota several days ago......................

 

http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/National/...howbyline=True#

[Dano]

Yea, I called Kevin and he said so far we are still good to go......hope so.

[Carp]

Heard about this one on the radio Wayne.

 

I hope they put out the fire asap and no one gets hurt.

[tjsa]

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories.php?id=43509

 

It is not contained by any means.

[irishfield]

This will give you an idea of just how big of an area we're talking about

 

Don't click if you're on dial up...its 3.1meg

 

http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/Fire_1/perimeter_map.pdf

 

and the Minnesota fire fighting website

 

http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/fire_1.shtml

 

Cost to date, just for fire fighting, in USA alone $4million at this point. Does not include homes/cabins lost already.

 

Check out the picture gallery for some amazing pictures of the devistation.

Edited May 13, 2007 by irishfield