637. "WE ARE NOT FINE. WE ARE NOT PREPARED." Article by a man in Alberta, Canada, who barely escaped the recent fires.
This article should motivate us all to have a plan, and be prepared for whatever may come! I found this on facebook this last week. "WE ARE NOT FINE. WE ARE NOT PREPARED." The following account was written May 4, by a man who escaped the fires near Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. You can find his story here . "A few hours ago my family and I escaped the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, which as you may have seen on the news is burning. "We drove through the fire, avoiding dangling electrical wires. We are alive, we have found shelter for tonight in a motel. But like so many others we were unprepared to evacuate when we were told we needed to. "I am going to ask you to do what my family did not do, but wish we did: have an emergency kit ready. "Forest fires are not uncommon in Northern Alberta. Each year many fires occur in the vast Boreal forest that covers the Northern Region of the province, but most of them stay conta