HITTING THE MATS A wrestling card at Navy League Hall saw lots of action Saturday. Pg 46
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Water not up to snuff
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The entire population of the city of Fort McMurray has been evacuated due to threat from a forest fire that has, according to the local press, completely consumed at least one suburb in the south end of the city. The fire, however, impacts much of the rest of the country, including Campbell River where former residents or family members now working in Fort McMurray have had their lives disrupted. Many are concerned about their well being. Ian Husband, who spent most of his life in Campbell River, was one of the 80,000 people who slowly made their way out of the city on Tuesday. “It was ominous,” he told Gord Kurbis of CTV Vancouver Island. “The whole sky went dark.” Husband said that the evacuation was somewhat chaotic. “At one point we were unable to go south because of the fire so that forced everybody out north, and all of the evacuation happened that day and it is kind of hard to get that many people out on a two lane road, so that was part of the problem,” he said. Kelly Thomas moved back to Campbell River from Fort McMur-
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Social media users have been sharing their experiences and images from the Fort McMurray wildfire situation llike this one from Jamee Lowndes on Instagram.
ray in September. Her son and her daughter’s boyfriend were also part of the mass exodus.
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