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Saskatchewan fire

A man from Wollaston Lake Hatchet Lake First Nation speaks to an official with the Canadian Red Cross at the Cosmo Civic Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Wednesday.
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A man from Wollaston Lake Hatchet Lake First Nation speaks to an official with the Canadian Red Cross at the Cosmo Civic Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Wednesday. Smoke and shifting winds hampered efforts to evacuate a northern Saskatchewan fly-in community where a forest fire burned at the edge of town. The smoke briefly cleared at Wollaston Lake airport Wednesday, allowing 200 people to be flown out of the remote community, about 840 kilometres north of Saskatoon. But at least 1,000 other residents remained hunkered down in two local schools.