Manitoba RCMP to provide update on Lac du Bonnet wildfire

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Manitoba RCMP accidental they volition springiness an update related to the wildfire adjacent Lac du Bonnet alongside section representatives connected Wednesday afternoon.

Mounties, section officials to talk astatine quality league astatine 3:30 p.m. CT

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· Posted: May 14, 2025 3:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Thick occurrence  fume  fills the aerial  supra  a enactment     of trees

Heavy clouds of wildfire fume choke the aerial supra the Lac du Bonnet country connected Tuesday. (Randall McKenzie/CBC)

Manitoba RCMP accidental they volition springiness an update related to the wildfire adjacent Lac du Bonnet alongside section representatives connected Wednesday afternoon.

RCMP Supt. Chris Hastie, commandant of the Manitoba eastbound district, is scheduled to talk astatine 3:30 p.m. CT, on with Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet Reeve Loren Schinkel and Rural Municipality of Alexander Mayor Jack Brisco.

CBC News volition livestream the update from the Lac du Bonnet RCMP detachment connected this page.

Hundreds person already been forced retired of the cottage state assemblage successful eastbound Manitoba, arsenic a raging out-of-control wildfire adjacent Lac du Bonnet rapidly grew successful strength done the precocious day and evening Tuesday.

While determination were nary reports of injuries, determination was a important nonaccomplishment of structures astir the community's Wendigo Beach area, Schinkel said Wednesday morning.

The province's online occurrence representation lists a fig of different wildfires burning crossed Manitoba, including respective listed arsenic retired of control.

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