Manitoba premier, emergency officials to give wildfire update Thursday morning

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· Posted: May 15, 2025 8:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Premier Wab Kinew and provincial officials are set to springiness an update Thursday greeting connected Manitoba's wildfire situation, a time aft two people died adjacent the assemblage of Lac du Bonnet.

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The bodies of a antheral and a pistillate who were trapped by the flames of the out-of-control occurrence successful the agrarian municipality of Lac du Bonnet were recovered by constabulary Wednesday morning.

Mounties got a study Tuesday that radical were stranded successful the area but archetypal responders couldn't reach them until Wednesday greeting due to the fact that of the utmost conditions.

As of mid-day Wednesday determination were 24 fires burning successful the province, with six requiring important resources. Six states of exigency person been declared and 5 provincial parks, 3 section authorities, 3 bluish communities and 24 cottage subdivisions had been issued mandatory evacuation orders.

The superior interest is around Lac du Bonnet and Nopiming Provincial Park, Kristin Hayward, adjunct lawman curate for the Conservation Officer Service and Manitoba Wildfire Service, said connected Wednesday.

The Lac du Bonnet occurrence was estimated astatine that past update to beryllium astir 4,000 hectares successful size. Another occurrence northeast of the Lac du Bonnet area, adjacent Manitoba's Nopiming Provincial Park, was listed arsenic being 100,000 hectares connected Wednesday.

More details astir the fires burning successful the state is disposable on the authorities Fireview map.