Winnipeg lifts fire ban after some rain, colder weather

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: May 19, 2025 5:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A occurrence prohibition that was successful spot successful the City of Winnipeg has expired.

The metropolis said successful a merchandise Monday that the prohibition barring residents from utilizing immoderate barbecues, among different activities, volition not beryllium renewed.

The two-week prohibition went into effect connected May 5 amid a higher-than-normal fig of writer fires earlier this spring, according to the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.

Open fires, backyard occurrence pits, fireworks and occurrence pits successful metropolis parks arsenic good arsenic the usage of coagulated fuel-burning appliances were not allowed during the two-week period.

"The conditions close present didn't pb to extending that occurrence ban," said Lisa Gilmour, adjunct main of assemblage hazard simplification with the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service.

"We've got immoderate precipitation, the temperatures aren't arsenic hot, the winds aren't arsenic strong, and the precipitation … was implicit an extended play of clip and a batch of it was benignant of capable to beryllium absorbed into the ground." 

Gilmour said conditions are inactive drier than usual. The metropolis is urging radical to usage each occurrence pits and outdoor cooking appliances with caution and travel section regulations.

A representation showing the Manitoba municipalities wherever occurrence bans are successful spot tin beryllium recovered connected the province's website.