Lynn Lake air quality warning remains as crews monitor area hotspots for wildfire threats

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 8:19 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Smoke continues to billow implicit a bluish Manitoba assemblage Thursday wherever crews are monitoring country hotspots from above, acceptable to leap into enactment astatine the motion of encroaching wildfires.

Lynn Lake remains nether an aerial prime informing owed to dense fume from adjacent wood fires, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada connected Thursday.

The town, astir 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, is connected evacuation alert contempt declaring Wednesday there was "no imminent threat" of a repetition of precocious past period erstwhile residents were forced to permission owed to fires.

Crews were expected to scan areas astir the assemblage from supra aboriginal Thursday arsenic they effort to place immoderate hotspots that could airs threats should conditions change, states the latest updated posted to the Town of Lynn Lake Facebook leafage Wednesday night.

For now, the section forecast is favourable for the adjacent 2 days, though that could alteration implicit the play arsenic conditions could elevate wildfire risks.

Mandatory evacuation orders Were archetypal issued May 26 and 27 for Sherridon and Lynn Lake, respectively. One time later, Manitoba issued a provincewide authorities of emergency, which the premier announced Monday has since been lifted.

Lynn Lake residents returned June 20, Sherridon connected June 14.

On Wednesday, evacuees — astir 4,800 of them — were allowed to instrumentality to Flin Flon, astir 240 km southbound of Lynn Lake.

Find the latest wildfire accusation astatine these sources:

• Canadian wildfire map
• Province of Manitoba occurrence bulletins
• CBC's wildfire tracker

Are you an evacuee who needs assistance? Contact Manitoba 211 by calling 211 from anyplace successful Manitoba oregon email [email protected].