Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to convene the Incident Response Group in Ottawa today to discuss the ongoing wildfire situation across the country.
Carney also convened the group of ministers and senior officials a little over a month ago in response to an earlier wave of wildfires, which peaked in May and June, then receded, and have now flared up again.
More than 6,000 people are currently out of their homes in Manitoba, and the communities of Lynn Lake and Snow Lake ordered residents to flee for the second time in just weeks.
- Metro Vancouver should prepare to move to Stage 3 water restrictions in June
- Kingston leaders call on Ontario to support marine conservation in Great Lakes
- Huge national marine conservation area established off B.C.’s Central Coast
- Wildfire Act-related charges laid following blaze northeast of Regina
In Saskatchewan, the fires have forced out about 1,000 residents across a number of communities.
The fires have also triggered smoke warnings and advisories through much of Manitoba and into Saskatchewan.
The BC Wildfire Service, meanwhile, warns that more significant fire behaviour could result today and tomorrow from the change to an “outflow pattern” in the Coastal Fire Centre, which the service says occurs when air flows out from the mountains toward the water.
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