A father and son injured fighting a fire during Tuesday’s windstorm in west-central Saskatchewan are still in a Calgary hospital’s intensive care unit, according to family.

Ron Wedrick and his son Evan are receiving treatment from specialists at Foothills Medical Centre.

The two, ages 43 and 25, are from the Gull Lake and Carmichael area in Saskatchewan. They were helping fire crews battle a blaze south of nearby Tompkins, Sask., when their vehicle ended up in the ditch, according to Ron’s wife and Evan’s mother, Twila.

“Our guys were driving on the road. It was windy. The sand was, kind of — you couldn’t see the road. And (they) drove into a ditch,” Twila said.

The pair managed to get to the road and call for help, but suffered severe burns and smoke inhalation.

They were first taken to hospitals in Maple Creek and then Medicine Hat, Alta., before they were airlifted to Calgary.

“It’s like a bad dream. It really is,” Evan’s wife, Kymberleigh, said. “Evan and I have a two-and-a-half-month-old, so it’s been hard, but she’s here for the ride, so we’ll get through this as a family.”

Kymberleigh and the couple’s new baby, as well as Twila and her and Ron’s two daughters, are by the father and son’s bedsides.

A GoFundMe page started by Migneault has raised more than $50,000 for the family in less than 24 hours.

“While most families were at home taking shelter from the storm, Ron Wedrick and his son Evan were out fighting fires,” Migneault wrote on the page.

The father and son are well respected in the community, she told CTV.

“They are go, go, go — whether it’s their oil jobs or farming jobs and just helping out the community, or just friends. They are the first people in the community to help out,” Migneault said.

Wind gusts reached speeds of over 100 km/h in Saskatchewan on Tuesday and caused fires in the province’s west-central area to spread quickly. One fire forced about 1,200 people from their homes in areas of Leader and Burstall, as well as the Rural Municipality of Deer Forks.

--- CORRECTION: An RCMP news release Wednesday stated Evan – without releasing his name – is 27 years old and said the father and son were fighting a fire on their own property. According to the family and family friends, Evan is 25 and he and Ron were helping to fight a fire closer to Tompkins.

--- with files from Moses Woldu and CTV Calgary