Flin Flon residents asked to prepare for evacuation as fire crosses Manitoba border

CBC News

· Posted: May 27, 2025 11:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 28

The City of Flin Flon told its residents to brace for a imaginable evacuation connected Tuesday arsenic a wildfire that started astatine a landfill successful Creighton, Sask., crossed implicit the Manitoba border. 

Flin Flon, which is 630 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg by the Saskatchewan border, said it issued a pre-evacuation announcement Tuesday nighttime owed to adust conditions and proximity to the fire. 

On Tuesday afternoon, metropolis officials said the occurrence crossed Kisseynew Lake Road northbound of Trout Lake Mine. Cliff Lake Road and Kisseynew Lake Road person been closed to the public.

In a connection posted to Facebook astatine 7:40 p.m., metropolis officials suggested that residents hole an exigency kit that includes medicine medications, idiosyncratic items similar clothing, favored supplies, phones and laptops, important documents, and invaluable oregon meaningful items that cannot beryllium replaced. 

Vehicles should beryllium afloat fuelled and question ready, the metropolis warned. 

Officials are asking susceptible radical who would necessitate assistance during an evacuation to registry successful idiosyncratic astatine metropolis hallway oregon telephone 833-210-6435. 

An evacuation centre volition beryllium acceptable up if the occurrence concern gets worse, the metropolis said. 

Across the border, the Town of Creighton is besides asking citizens to pre-register successful lawsuit of a imaginable evacuation. 

Creighton said its occurrence section continues to enactment alongside provincial wildfire officials from some Manitoba and Saskatchewan to power the fire.

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