{"id":22,"date":"2025-06-09T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saskatoonconstruction.ca\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:37:19","slug":"wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saskatoonconstruction.ca\/index.php\/2025\/06\/09\/wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let’s take a moment to pause for all the wildfires that are happening up north. There are so much destruction and people are having to flee and live in their cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As of June 5th<\/sup>, there were 25 active wildfires in Saskatchewan. Last Friday the province issued a public alert ordering the residents of La Ronge and Eagle Point out of town and the wildfires breached the town\u2019s industrial park in the north east. The pictures online look like the apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Shoe Fire remains the largest blaze, covering 471,000 hectares and is responsible for closing down three highways. THREE. Highways 912, 913, and 165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This website<\/a> is a site that has Saskatchewan\u2019s active wildfire map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Saskatchewan RCMP officers have remained in the communities, as they are the final people to leave along with the firefighters. I think that they are staying to patrol and respond to calls for service in places like La Ronge and Creighton. Hopefully there will not be any more heartache by people committing crime in these areas, but I\u2019m not even sure about that percentage of people left behind. Surely no one is thinking, wow\u2026 there\u2019s a massive fire. Let\u2019s go and wreck some havoc!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The amount of wildfires is so much that the smoke is filtering down even to the US. And last Friday Toronto\u2019s air quality was among the worst in the world. And now (Monday) the smoke is traveling to the UK and turning the skies orange<\/a>. That\u2019s over 6,400 KM away from central Canada. I didn\u2019t know what the sky turned orange where there is smoke haze, but apparently its because the smoke particles in the atmosphere scatter the blue wavelengths of light more, which allows the orange and red hues to reach our eyes more easily. I mean it is pretty, but when you think about the devastation, I think I would never see a red sunset again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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