Saskatchewan removes the fire ban when evacués from some Manitoba communities return home
The South Saskatchewan River was dressed in the Wildervuurstrip in September 2023.Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press
Wildfire officials in Saskatchewan have lifted a provincial fire ban because the weather has improved, while thousands of displaced communities in Manitoba have started returning home.
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says that the prohibition was canceled at the end of Wednesday for all crown countries north of the provincial forest border to the Churchill River.
A message says that provincial parks and municipalities still have their own fire prohibitions or restrictions. Residents have told you to check online for local prohibitions.
During a Thursday press conference, Steve Roberts from the agency said that more than 20 millimeters of rain fell in North -Saskechewan in recent days, allowing the fire ban to be canceled.
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Roberts said that the Australian firefighters go home after a month of a month. Crews from elsewhere in Canada, as well as the United States and Mexico, remain at hand, just like around 300 military firefighters.
While Atlantic Canada – in particular Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia – continues to struggle with different massive fires, he said that the agency would assess which resources can send if necessary.
“We will make resources available if we no longer need,” said Roberts. “We have let our partners in Newfoundland and New Brunswick know what we release, so they have the opportunity to possibly have those resources shifted to them.”
Various areas in Saskatchewan and Manitoba have spent the summer under one or more fire bans because of devastating forest fires that have forced thousands from their houses.
Agency chairman Marlo Prithcard said that around 1,100 people in Saskatchewan have been delayed.
Manitoba remains under a provincial state of emergency due to the nature fire season – the worst on record in Manitoba in the last 30 years. The state of emergency is in force until August 22.
Manitoba officials said that from Wednesday the fire hazard in most of the province was low, with bags of moderate fire hazard in the southern and central areas and a mix of moderate and high fire hazard in the northwest.
Evacués from various Manitoba communities went home last week, because firefighters made good progress with the help of rain.
From Thursday morning the province said that 12,800 people stayed out of their houses – from about 14,000 a week ago.
Evacuation orders were lifted earlier this week for the First Nations of Little Grand Rapids and Garden Hill, as well as Stevenson Island.
The Army of Canada and the Red Cross were brought in to help transfer more than 2,800 people from Garden Hill in mid -July. The nearby, remote island of Stevenson was later evacuated when burning the area threatened.
Residents of NisichaWayasihk Cree Nation, also known as Nelson House, started to introduce this week again in Northern Manitoba after an evacuation warrant was published earlier this month.
Those who left in their own vehicles were allowed to go back on Wednesday. A social media post from the community says that flights and banking are expected to start Friday. There was no word about when Evacués sent from the province could return home.
Elsewhere in the north of Manitoba, Evacués from Pimicikamak Cree Nation received Wednesday that they could return home this summer after two separate evacuations.
The Manitoba Wildfire Service says that from Wednesday 161 there were active forest fires and Saskatchewan reported 79 active Blazes.
