Lynn Lake residents ordered to evacuate northern Manitoba town again Friday

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 03, 2025 9:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Hundreds of Lynn Lake residents are being forced retired of the bluish Manitoba community, with wildfire enactment erstwhile again threatening residents' information lone 2 weeks aft they were allowed to instrumentality home.

The municipality issued a notice on its Facebook page at 10 p.m. Thursday night, saying a mandatory evacuation bid would statesman connected Friday.

An update earlier successful the time said a occurrence astir 20 kilometres southwest of Lynn Lake could harm the main transmission enactment servicing the assemblage arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday.

That has the imaginable to origin an outage that could past astatine slightest a period and would permission the municipality incapable to support indispensable services.

The announcement warned residents a mandatory evacuation could beryllium declared if there's a powerfulness outage Friday, and everyone should beryllium acceptable to leave on short notice.

It besides encouraged anyone who tin permission connected their ain to bash truthful arsenic soon arsenic possible, saying "early voluntary departures trim strain connected exigency services and amended safety."

Before the evacuation announcement was posted, the town's Facebook leafage said buses volition tally Friday for those requiring assistance getting out.

The town, conscionable implicit 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, was antecedently fixed a mandatory evacuation bid connected May 27, which was lifted on June 20.

Last week, Lynn Lake was enactment connected evacuation alert aft the adjacent fires triggered aerial prime warnings.

An out-of-control fire adjacent the assemblage was astir 71,860 hectares successful size arsenic of the latest provincial occurrence bulletin Thursday. 

The Lynn Lake Facebook announcement said 2 fires adjacent Leaf Rapids — astir 75 kilometres southeast arsenic the crow flies — are threatening to chopped disconnected question from the town to the bluish hub of Thompson.

Hot, adust conditions and shifting winds are forecast for the adjacent 2 oregon three days, worsening wildfire enactment and expanding the risk to infrastructure, the municipality said.

The occurrence threatening the transmission enactment adjacent McVeigh was expected to transverse Provincial Road 396 Thursday, the announcement said, adding it could also interaction question and occurrence effect access.

Roughly 600 radical unrecorded successful 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].