'Send your water': Sask. village loses hotel, Canada Post and town office in fire
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A small Saskatchewan village has lost several important landmarks following a fire earlier this week.
A small Saskatchewan village has lost several important landmarks following a fire on Tuesday afternoon.
Cheryl Greuel, the mayor of Wiseton, Sask. says she was at work in a nearby community school when she received an urgent phone call.
"Around 1:45 I got a call saying that fire had been dispatched to Wiseton, and that the old bar was on fire," Greuel told CTV News.
Greuel says it appears the fire started in a truck parked near the old hotel and quickly spread from the bar of the hotel to the nearby village office. She quickly put out a call for help on social media, and nearby fire departments and neighbours answered the call.
"I actually went on Snapchat on our group chat, and I said the bar is on fire, send your water. And then I made Facebook posts and everybody shared that, and we made calls to the big farmers that we know have a lot of water, and they all come out," she said.
With the help of local farmers and the fire departments of nearby Dinsmore, Elrose and Milden, the fire was under control by 6 p.m.
