Stony Rapids Residents Warned

Fire officials tell residents to stay home
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Reported By David Kirton
Posted June 11, 2008 - 5:27pm

Stay in your homes.  That's the warning coming from RCMP for residents in Stony Rapids. Like Uranium City, Stony Rapids is now engulfed in thick smoke from a forest fire.

The smoke has resulted in the closure of the airport and a road, but Mounties say no homes are in imminent danger.

74 residents from Uranium city remain away from their homes due to a fire only 4-kilometers away.

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RE: Stony

On June 11th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:

I am presently in Stony Rapids.

The airport was only temporarily closed this morning because of the heavy smoke covering the hamlet. Visibility at noon was only 1/4 mile. A slight breeze came this afternoon from the north-northwest & blew the heavy smoke out of the hamlet to allow the airport to reopen & water bombing to continue at around 2pm. The airport is OPEN, but the road to Black Lake is still closed & last I heard, the fire was located nearby the Sasktel communications site, south of the hamlet. The TransWwest Air regularly scheduled flights are scheduled to arrive this evening.

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