Better than snakes.

​You wouldn’t expect to see a dog across the aisle on an ordinary flight. But there’s nothing ordinary about the dozens of flights carrying Fort McMurray residents to safety.

While most of the 88,000 evacuees from Fort McMurray went south, those who went north are now being relocated to areas with more resources.

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WestJet is one of several airlines lifting evacuees out of two airports normally used by oil companies: Firebag, owned by Suncor, and Albion, owned by Shell. "There’s been nothing really usual about what’s taking place," Lauren Stewart, a WestJet spokesperson, told BuzzFeed Canada.

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"People have just shown up there with whatever they could grab, pets included."

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