Saskatchewan·NewAccording to a neighbour, both Lorne Calvert and his wife Betty, who were home at the time, escaped without injury on Tuesday when their home at Buffalo Pound Lake went up in flames.Neighbour says former premier, wife escaped without injuryCBC News · Posted: Sep 10, 2025 5:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes agoSmoke could still be seen Wednesday at the site of former Saskatchewan premier Lorne Calvert’s home at Buffalo Pound Lake, after the house was destroyed by fire Tuesday. (Aliyah Marko-Omene/CBC)Former Saskatchewan premier Lorne Calvert’s home was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon.According to a neighbour, both Calvert and his wife Betty, who were home at the time, escaped without injury.Calvert was the leader of the provincial NDP and served as Saskatchewan’s 13th premier from 2001 to 2007.The Bethune Fire Department received a call at about 3:30 CST about a house fire on the north shore of Buffalo Pound Lake in the Resort Village of North Grove.WATCH| Raw video of former Sask. premier Lorne Calvert’s house burning: Raw video of former Sask. premier Lorne Calvert’s house burningThe retirement home of former Saskatchewan premier Lorne Calvert at Buffalo Pound Lake was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.Bill Deyo, who lives near the Calvert home, said his wife phoned him to come home after she saw the Calverts’ house on fire, worried that flames might spread to their property.”She was in the process of quickly gathering up some of our valuables, papers and stuff like that in our house, and kind of as a preventative type thing,” Deyo said.”Feel bad for Calverts, but thank goodness nobody was hurt.”By Wednesday, only piles of charred concrete and twisted metal remained of the home.
Former Sask. premier Lorne Calvert’s home destroyed by fire
