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Military evacuates hundreds as Saskatchewan fires rage

By Mark Blackburn
Jun 03, 2011

Massive forest fires in Saskatchewan have nearly 1,200 residents from the communities of Wollaston Lake and the Hatchet Lake First Nation fleeing to safety with help from the Canadian military.

APTN National News
Massive forest fires in Saskatchewan have nearly 1,200 residents from the communities of Wollaston Lake and the Hatchet Lake First Nation fleeing to safety with help from the Canadian military.

APTN National News reporter Priscilla Wolf spoke with some of the evacuees.

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