A father and son who were badly burned while fighting a grass fire on their land in southwestern Saskatchewan are still in a Calgary hospital’s intensive care unit. The family of Ron Wedrick and his son Evan says they are being treated at the Foothills Medical Centre by a team of burn treatment specialists. A family statement says Ron Wedrick’s wife and their two daughters — as well as Evan’s wife and their newborn daughter — have been with the injured men in hospital. Grass fires whipped up by high winds gusting to more than 100 km/h threatened several towns and villages in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan earlier this week. “While most families were at home taking shelter from the storm, Ron Wedrick and his son Evan were out fighting fires,” Migneault wrote on the page.

Source: National Post October 19, 2017 16:52 UTC