Heavy winds and blinding snow were sweeping through the tiny town of Emerson, Canada, around dawn on Wednesday morning when the call came in to local fire chief Jeff French: a group of asylum seekers from the United States had just crossed the Canadian border, but got pinned down by the blizzard somewhere on the outskirts of town.
With roads closed in the area, temperatures below minus 12 degrees celsius and winds gusting at 80 kilometres per hour, Mr French and his crew dispatched the town’s transit bus to rescue them click here for full article courtsey of SMH
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