Coming from PEI, Brittany Fleming had never seen anything like this before.
She was living in a neighbourhood between Timberlea and Dickinsfield, in Fort McMurray, and homes in the area were already on fire when she was forced out.
Brittany Fleming grabbed her animals, her passport and her valuables, when a police officer said, it’s time to get out now.
She says it’s hard to find the words to describe it, “A horror scene, just driving down the road and you can’t see ahead of you because the smoke is so bad. You have fire on both sides of you. Firefighters were scrambling to save homes, it was unbelievable.”
Fleming is now safe in Fort Saskatchewan, a trip that normally takes four and half hours, took 13 hours in bumper to bumper traffic.
She says there were vehicles all over the highways, after motorists ran out of fuel and just abandoned them.
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— 91.9The Bend News (@919TheBendNews) May 4, 2016
