What was meant to be a peaceful canoe trip for two friends from Texas became a terrifying race against a wall of wildfire.
When longtime friends David Ogle and Kevin Stovall set off down the Kopka River, they were chasing a decades-old dream of wilderness and fishing.
Days later, the two canoeists from Texas found themselves near the raging wildfires burning in northwestern Ontario as a “rumbling” wall of fire bore down around them and ashes fell from the sky. The trip had become a near-death struggle to escape — only ending when their outfitter said he spent thousands to save them from the fire’s path.
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Miiyah Paavola fled her home in northwestern Ontario this week. “If we had waited any longer, we would have been dead,” she says.
In Ontario, a freight train was stranded during a wildfire, leading to a collision when crew attempted a rescue. Despite the…
THUNDER BAY - The smoke that blanketed Whitesand First Nation became thicker, darker and more acrid within hours.
At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke.
Train operators in rural Canada were trapped by raging wildfires, as nearby communities were evacuated.
At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke.
