Manitoba wildfire grows nears Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, thousands evacuated
“It’s scary,” evacuee Leo Sinclair told Global News.
: Members of 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron unload evacuees’ luggage at The Pas airport on July 16, 2022.“The Province of Manitoba and Indigenous Services Canada had a plan to extract the remaining people who had to be evacuated, and indicated there was no longer any need for support from the Canadian Armed Forces,” a spokesperson said.The Canadian Red Cross has also been helping with the evacuations and said an estimated 2,000 people have been removed from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation.
Mathias Colomb Cree Nation is a fly-in community which the Red Cross said has made evacuations more difficult.
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