CBC Manitoba
Fire departments in southern Manitoba are answering the call to help northern communities save their homes and lands.
The volunteer fire chief in Morris, Man., Trevor Thiessen, and another firefighter helped respond to the 71,000-hectare wildfire near Lynn Lake and Marcel Colomb First Nation last week and over the weekend.
"It was intense," Thiessen said. "It was surreal."
They drove their pumper tanker 15 hours from Morris to Lynn Lake and stayed there for five days, he said, helping to set up sprinklers on homes, the hospital and school, where flames came dangerously close. Thiessen, pictured here with his daughters, says he and another firefighter drove their town's pumper tanker 15 hours to Lynn Lake to help respond to the wildfire threatening that community. (Submitted by Trev
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