In northern Manitoba, most of the 2,000 residents of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation had evacuated their homes by Sunday, as a result of a fire first reported earlier in the week
Wildfires are threatening communities around Lytton, B.C. and in northern Manitoba, with hundreds of residents forced to evacuate and many others preparing to leave at a moment’s notice as the out-of-control blazes grow in size.
180-square-kilometre fire that was first reported earlier in the week. Jason Small, a Red Cross of Canada spokesperson, said about 30On Friday, with the wildfire only two kilometres away, hundreds of residents fled the smoke-filled community by helicopter, airplane and train. Many of them gathered at
Although the Nohomin Creek wildfire in B.C. has so far spared the village of Lytton, some residents of the nearby Lytton First Nation, located north of the village, have suffered heavy losses. The nation’s deputy chief, John Haugen, said he knew of seven houses that had burned down since Thursday, and he said one person had narrowly saved their home from being engulfed. He added that the area was thick with smoke on Sunday morning.
“I think we’re going to be mopping up for a while,” he said. “If the weather co-operates, we should be able to knock most of the front of the fire down.”new crews were arriving on Sunday to fight the Nohomin Creek fire. Those reinforcements, she said, would bump up the total number of workers in the area to 100 and the number of helicopters to 10.
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