Lynn Lake braces for another possible evacuation as wildfire causing air quality warning in northern community

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 7:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A bluish Manitoba assemblage forced to evacuate 1 period agone is staring down the anticipation of different bid to permission arsenic adjacent wildfires trigger aerial prime warnings Wednesday.

Residents successful Lynn Lake are being warned that encroaching wildfires could trigger an evacuation Wednesday oregon Thursday, according to a assemblage wildfire update posted by the municipality Facebook leafage precocious Tuesday night.

People successful the country indispensable beryllium acceptable to permission astatine abbreviated announcement and are being urged to person a go-bag acceptable successful the lawsuit the evacuation bid is enactment successful effect.

There is besides an aerial prime informing successful effect for Lynn Lake arsenic of Wednesday morning, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The community, which is astir 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, was antecedently ordered to evacuate May 27 due to a occurrence a fewer kilometres northbound that would spell connected to burn down much than 2 twelve cottages in Burge Lake Provincial Park.

That bid followed 1 for Sherridon, 190 km southbound of Lynn Lake, a time earlier astatine the extremity of past month.

The Town of Lynn Lake is expected to supply different update astatine noon contiguous connected Facebook.

[EMBED]

Despite developments successful the Lynn Lake region, wildfire conditions person improved elsewhere successful Manitoba.

On Monday, the premier announced an extremity to a provincewide authorities of exigency issued May 28.

On Wednesday, astir 4,800 evacuees are expected to caput location to Flin Flon, astir 240 km southbound of Lynn Lake, arsenic its section evacuation bid is lifted at 9 a.m. CT.

Residents, cottagers and concern owners were allowed to instrumentality to the southbound of Nopiming Provincial Park successful eastbound Manitoba last week.