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CBC
a day ago
- Climate
- CBC
2 cabins burned in wildfire near Fort Smith
Two cabins near Fort Smith, N.W.T., have burned in a wildfire that originated in Alberta, according to a news release Sunday from N.W.T. Fire. One was lost despite crews setting up sprinklers to protect structures in the area. Crews weren't able to do structure protection work for the second cabin due to poor visibility. The two cabins were in different areas, though N.W.T. Fire didn't specify where they were. N.W.T. Fire said they have notified the owners. "It is always unfortunate when structures are lost," wildfire information officer Thomas Bentham said in the wildfire update Sunday. "These threats are a reality in wildland areas." Bentham wrote that structure protection work saved several other cabins over the weekend. The fire covers about 65 square kilometres and is about 28 kilometres east of Fort Smith in the Schaefer Lake area. There were two other fires burning in the South Slave as of Sunday afternoon's update — one about 24 kilometres from Fort Smith along the Slave River, and one by Cameron Hills, about 13 kilometres west of Hwy 1. Five fires were burning in the Dehcho —one about 30 kilometres southwest of Sambaa K'e, one 74 kilometres from Fort Liard and one fire about 27 kilometres southwest of Fort Simpson. Bentham said those fires don't pose a risk to the communities. Two other fires burn just north of the B.C. border.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Woman Was 'Annoyed' Her Best Friend Turned 'Girls Trip' into Couple's Getaway After Her Husband Was 'Hurt He Wasn't Invited'
A woman arranged a girls' trip with two friends to celebrate her best friend's upcoming birthday Venting on Reddit, said the plan changed after her friend's husband complained about not being invited The trip has since been canceled due to unforeseen circumstancesA woman is vexed following an unexpected change to a planned getaway with friends. Venting about the situation on Reddit, the woman explained that she and another friend had agreed to go with their mutual best friend on a 'girls' trip.' She said they booked a cabin and budgeted for everything they would need, including food. 'At some point during the final planning over the last two weeks, bestie's husband expressed his feelings were a little hurt that he wasn't invited,' the woman wrote. 'So now the husband is coming." 'She also invited mutual bestie's new BF [boyfriend], so now it's two couples going and me. Note: I'm a lesbian and my partner is working abroad for the summer, and all my other friends are busy so I don't have anybody to bring with me.' is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! The woman confessed the situation had left her 'kind of sad/annoyed' as the cabin only has two bedrooms. Since everyone else is in couples, she would have to sleep on an air mattress in the living room. 'WIBTA [will I be the a-------] if I bailed on this trip?' she wrote, asking for opinions. 'I don't want a refund for my part in the cabin rental or gas money,' the woman continued, adding, 'I know a part of this is due to my jealousy that my partner's not here and theirs are. But I'm also just really upset that this is supposed to be a girls' trip, now it's turned into a couples trip, and me.' The woman revealed in an update that the trip was no longer going ahead for 'totally unrelated reasons.' Despite this, the initial post racked up over 4,000 comments and continued to be flooded with people sharing how they would've handled the situation. 'Nta [not the a------] - also you should get a refund,' one person wrote. 'They completely changed the premise of the vacation on you. Instead of bonding time with the girls, you are being used as a piggy bank for someone else's vacation. Don't let them take advantage of you like that!' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Agreeing, another said, 'NTA - I actively encourage my wife to go on girls' trips. And feel zero hurt feelings because I wasn't invited. I live with her and see her every day, so I encourage her to go and do stuff with her friends." 'Not that this is about the bestie's husband, but I feel he has some serious trust issues if he just brings up his feelings 2 weeks before the trip,' the same person added. A third commenter chimed in, 'NTA bail and ask for a refund. The air mattress alone is an insult on top of this, it isn't the trip you agreed to.' Read the original article on People
CBC
4 days ago
- Climate
- CBC
Regina resident rushes north to save his cabin from fires
Regina resident rushes north to save his cabin from fires 8 minutes ago Duration 1:58
CBC
6 days ago
- Business
- CBC
'We are beyond devastated': Fire destroys dozens of cabins and homes at East Trout Lake, Sask.
Social Sharing For days Myra Froc has been scouring social media hoping for word that her beloved family cabin at East Trout lake had escaped the ravages of the Shoe wildfire. Froc got news on Wednesday afternoon. Her cabin was destroyed, burned to the ground along with dozens of others in the community. "We are beyond devastated," Froc said in an emailed statement to CBC. Froc received confirmation from the East Trout Lake Cabin Owners' Association that her cabin was destroyed. Aerial pictures released Wednesday by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) show Froc's beloved cabin and community burned to ash. "There was significant damage to both resorts. The fire was very intense in the town site and there is nothing left of our cabins," Froc said about the clusters of cabins at East Trout Lake. For nearly 60 years, Froc's family has spent summers in the clapboard cabin her father built on the shores of East Trout Lake in 1967. Three generations have gathered each summer at the cabin deep in the File Hills, about 150 kilometres north of Prince Albert, surrounded by black spruce and tamarack pine trees. "We're talking about potentially a whole townsite of 50 to 60 cabins, many of them affected. We just don't know how many and how many have been burned to the ground," Myra said from her home in Lumsden, prior to receiving confirmation that dozens of cabins in her community were destroyed. "This cabin is part of our heritage. It's been in our family for so many years." Froc and other community members had feared the worst. Security camera footage was circulating showing the fire moving toward cabins before the power went out and the feed went down at 3 p.m CST Tuesday. The footage released by the SPSA on Wednesday shows the charred remains of dozens of cabins along the shore of East Trout Lake. It's led the community to expect the worst. "It's like a death in the family to us. It's something that has just sort of vanished and it will take 50 or 60 years to grow forest again. It's gone in our lifetimes anyway. We won't see it again." East Trout Lake remains under an evacuation order. Froc said even if someone tried to drive in to survey the damage, the wooden bridge providing access to the lake and cabins was destroyed by fire. The SPSA said progress has been made in fighting the Shoe fire, but that "East Trout Lake has received substantial loss." East Trout Lake is one of several areas evacuated due to the out-of-control wildfire that's been moving through the province's northern forest, decimating buildings and trees as it grows. At last count, the Shoe fire covered 216,000 hectares. Outfitting business destroyed Darren Sochaski fears he has "lost everything" after wildfire burned through his outfitting business near Smeaton, Sask., about 70 kilometres northeast of Prince Albert. "You hear people saying they watched their dreams burn, and I literally did that. It was devastating," he told Ian Hanomansing on CBC News Network. "The force of the fire and how it moved so fast, I don't even have words for it." Sochaski tried to travel up to one of the camps to see if he could get stuff out before the fire got there, but he was too late. He said the "force of the fire" that he witnessed makes him believe there is nothing left. Sochaski questioned whether there are enough resources to fight fires, as more of them have started burning this week. "We don't have the resources in Saskatchewan to fight these fires all at once," he said. He's not the only one questioning the provincial response. Froc said her community feels forgotten. In a media briefing on Tuesday, Steve Roberts, vice-president of operations for the SPSA, said the province has deployed "all our resources." "Our provincial resources are indeed stretched and it is one of the reasons we have gone to our Canadian partners and our other mutual aid partners to get more resources," he said. Saskatchewan has made requests for crews, equipment and more aircraft. There is already a water bomber from Alaska and two more from Quebec working in the province Little Bear Lake still fighting to save buildings The fire is also closing in on Little Bear Lake, a resort community off the Hanson Lake Road about 165 kilometres north east of Prince Albert. Like East Trout Lake, it's under an evacuation order, but a handful of locals have stayed behind to work around the clock to keep sprinkler systems running, soaking all of the buildings and creating humidity to try and stave off the fire. "Last night we could see a massive fire taking out all of the forest that's all the way across the lake. Where there used to be forest … now it's just char," said Troy Scowen, owner of Little Bear Lake Resort. Scowen, one of the residents that stayed behind to help protect the buildings, said the fire has destroyed the community's garbage dump, which is about half a kilometre away from the resort at Little Bear. "We're kind of surrounded, but not to the north, the north is still pretty good," Scowen said. The SPSA said it plans to protect Moose Lodge at Little Bear Lake and noted the fire is only one kilometre from the west shore of the lake. Scowen said the fire is an extreme threat to the Little Bear community, but added the people who have stayed behind to protect buildings will leave if it becomes unsafe.
E&E News
6 days ago
- Business
- E&E News
Trump USDA nominee tussles with Forest Service over land use
The Trump administration's nominee to oversee the Forest Service is facing a new dispute over his use of land managed by the agency. Michael Boren, the pick for Agriculture Department undersecretary for natural resources and environment, is clashing with the Forest Service for building a cabin and clearing land in the Sawtooth National Forest near Stanley, Idaho, according to agency correspondence and people familiar with the situation. The work on the property began before Boren was nominated earlier this year to the position, which requires Senate confirmation. But the dispute hasn't been fully resolved, according to people who've discussed the matter with Forest Service officials in the past week. Advertisement Boren's nomination hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday in the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. The dispute about the cabin and other work including diverting a stream is the latest issue between Boren and the Forest Service over how he manages land in and around the national forest. It also speaks to broader questions about how the Forest Service deals with communities and neighboring property owners, as well as how the agency handles special-use permits for a variety of activities. Boren's testy relationship with the Forest Service has attracted attention among Senate Democrats, including Ron Wyden of Oregon and Agriculture ranking member Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, and could be a focus of questioning at his hearing. The Democrats' offices didn't have immediate comment Wednesday. A spokesperson for Chair John Boozman (R-Ark.) didn't return a message seeking comment. Boren also didn't immediately return messages sent Wednesday by email and through lawyers he's worked with. A former Forest Service employee familiar with some of the details said the agency has tried to work with him to resolve the matter, which involves disagreements about precisely where his corporation's mining claims exist, for instance. According to a warning letter the Forest Service sent to one of Boren's companies, Galena Mines, last Nov. 13, a cabin was built on forest system land without prior authorization and must be removed by July 1, and the land returned to its prior condition. 'We recently discovered a cabin and cleared land around a nearly built structure on National Forest System (NFS) land,' the agency's area ranger, Kirk Flannigan, wrote to Galena Mines, adding that the closest private property to the site is owned by the business. 'The Forest Service has no record of a special use authorization, contract or approved operating plan that would permit the clearing of NFS land and the construction of the cabin in this location,' Flannigan wrote. Therefore, he said, 'the cabin must be removed and the area restored to its natural condition.' The agency gave Galena Mines 45 days — which would have been in January — to submit a restoration plan and until Aug. 1 to complete it. The Forest Service and Agriculture Department didn't immediately respond to a message Wednesday seeking comment and further updates. Among other challenges in the Sawtooth, the forest has become short staffed by agency-wide staffing reductions and recently announced reduced operating hours in some offices. Galena Mines is registered with the Idaho secretary of state's office. Boren was listed as a manager until Feb. 24, when the corporation filed an amendment to remove him as a manager, leaving the title to Amanda Boren. At issue, too, is where certain mining claims are located in the forest, which would indicate where Galena Mines would have access rights. The warning letter indicates that the Forest Service is aware of Galena's nearby mining claims but contends that the cabin is on other, unsurveyed parcels. Boren's selection in mid-January stirred attention in forest policy circles, given his and his brother David Boren's recent history of conflicts with the Forest Service about property rights. David had a disagreement over a trail the Forest Service was building through his ranch near Stanley on an easement. Michael Boren ran into trouble with a small airstrip on his ranch. He had a conditional-use permit from the Forest Service to land small planes, but neighbors complained that he'd already been using the airstrip. In court papers, Boren said he used aircraft occasionally in the management of his ranch. Those conflicts played out in legal fights as well as in local news reports at the time. In nominating Boren, President Donald Trump cited his experience in business as well as his work as a board member of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, and as a volunteer firefighter. A co-founder of Clearwater Analytics, Boren has made a career in financial management and software development. On Feb. 24, Michael and Joan Boren, as trustees of the MJB Revocable Trust, bought a new condominium at The Wharf in Washington for $6 million, according to property records with the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue. Contact this reporter on Signal at hellmarcman.49.
