source: huffingtonpost.ca
Canadian airlines “Canadian North Airlines” and “Westjet Aviation” decided to ignore their own regulations regarding the inclusion of pets with passengers on their flights when a unique and horrifying incident occurred in the city of Fort McMurray in the province of Alberta in Canada earlier this year.

The city of Fort McMurray became the epicenter of a series of large-scale forest fires which destroyed hundreds of homes and forced many residents to evacuate their home and the city itself. Since many of the residents had pets and had no time to prepare a separate evacuation for them, it seemed that many of these animals would be abandoned and probably perish. When “Canadian North Airlines” and “Westjet Aviation” became aware of this dilemma facing the residents and their animals, the airlines decided to waive its regulations of not allowing pets on their flights and gave the evacuated families the opportunity to bring their pets with them to safety!

Many voices of gratitude and appreciation from the evacuated families.

Here is photo of a person who is the owner of pet who was allowed to fly on the plane and this text message on social media (SNS) is one example of dozens of messages sent by grateful family members.

So many pictures of @CanadianNorth helping evacuate people and their pets pic.twitter.com/4OOLy6yDAk

— Ali Blair (@AliBlair112) 2016年5月6日

Your kindness saved our pets.

Canadian North Air and West Jet letting pets onboard for those fleeing Fort McMurray. #united #fortmac #Canada pic.twitter.com/EBnXAqXtgY

— Melissa Przedborski (@mprzedborski) 2016年5月7日

Thank you Airlines!

Thank you @CanadianNorth for flying evacuees & and their pets out of danger #ymm, & and to your lovely flight attendants for sharing pics pic.twitter.com/cRru8wU8Cw

— michelledhatt (@michelledhatt) 2016年5月6日

I wish I had been there to help.

Thx for all the kudos everyone. Happy to help move 2 & 4 legged pax from #ymm. Our FA Heidi shared this pic on FB 🙂 pic.twitter.com/IBChAWzMba

— Canadian North (@CanadianNorth) 2016年5月6日

What an adorable cat having kittens!

One of our evacuee passengers from #YMM has gone into labour so our #yeg flight ops team is looking after Mom and her kittens! "Meow Meow"! pic.twitter.com/G89Mnuurel

— Canadian North (@CanadianNorth) 2016年5月5日

In Fort McMurray large-scale forest fires created a very serious situation leaving the city in a sea of fire and smoke.

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Voices of praise from all over the world to the extraordinary kindness and generosity of these two airline for putting the needs of their passengers and their pets first!