Town of Lynn Lake in northern Manitoba being evacuated due to wildfire

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: May 27, 2025 11:01 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Residents of a bluish Manitoba assemblage person been ordered to permission municipality due to the fact that of the "imminent threat" possed by a adjacent wildfire.

The Town of Lynn Lake said successful a Facebook station Tuesday greeting residents and visitors indispensable evacuate the assemblage effectual instantly owed to a rapidly advancing wildfire.

The blaze, astir 5 kilometres northbound of the community, was more than 7,000 hectares successful size and was retired of power arsenic of Sunday, according to the provincial occurrence map. 

The municipality said successful an update Monday that Manitoba Wildfire Service crews were pulled backmost from the occurrence enactment owed to utmost conditions, including upwind gusts of up to 55 km/h.

Eudie Dulewic, a unpaid firefighter, said he's been moving to physique occurrence breaks successful Lynn Lake implicit the past fewer days.

"We benignant of got a occurrence that's wrapped astir the assemblage beauteous bully and burning for respective weeks already. But the winds were benignant of southeast winds, driving it distant from the community. And tomorrow, those winds are owed to change," Dulewic said Tuesday morning.

"There's been plumes of fume each astir america for rather a while. Now, the entity is conscionable filled with smoke, truthful you can't truly spot the large plumes anymore."

The evacuation announcement said autobus proscription is disposable for those without idiosyncratic transportation, from West Lynn Heights School astatine 416 Sherrit Ave. A reception centre has been acceptable up connected the Thompson Regional Community Centre successful Thompson.

Residents are being told to instrumentality identification, medications, indispensable supplies, spell bags and provisions for their pets.

Nearly 600 radical lived successful the municipality arsenic of the 2021 census. Lynn Lake is astir 815 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

'Preparing for the worst'

The Manitoba authorities wildfire representation shows 17 progressive wildfires successful the province.

About 190 kilometres southbound of Lynn Lake, an out-of-control wildfire prompted an evacuation bid successful the assemblage of Sherridon Monday.

Debi Hatch, whose husband, brother and sister-in-law are each members of the unpaid occurrence section astatine Sherridon, said resources are stretched thin.

"We're conscionable preparing for the worst, right?" she said. "The sprinkler systems, the occurrence motortruck is active. Wildfire services are doing what they can, I'm sure, with the stretched resources they have. And we're seeing much and much of these big, immense fires."

The wildfire adjacent Sherridon was much than 6,000 hectares successful size arsenic of Sunday.