Few forest fires in northern Manitoba, but conditions ripe for more
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WINNIPEG — Despite hot, dry conditions up north, it’s been a quiet season for forest fires so far in Manitoba.
Knock on wood.
Just across the border in northwestern Ontario, nearly 1,500 people left their homes Monday as smoke and forest fires spread through the region, Postmedia News reported.
That’s got Manitoba forest firefighters concerned.
“We have some high danger levels on the east side of the province corresponding with the west side of Ontario,” said Gary Friesen, manager of Manitoba Conservation’s fire program.
But so far only smoke has drifted across the provincial boundary, reaching as far as Thompson and Island Lake.
As of Tuesday, Manitoba had 21 active forest fires, including ones that were in the mopping-up stage, Friesen said Tuesday. None of the fires threatened communities. Most are small.
So far, there have been 174 fires this season, compared with 344 in a normal year to date, Friesen said.
High humidity, relatively low winds and timely showers, particularly accompanying lightning strikes, have been on Manitoba’s side, he added.
Meanwhile in Ontario, the situation is more serious. Roughly 94 fires were burning as of Monday night, stretching from about 100 kilometres east of Thunder Bay to the Ontario-Manitoba border in the west, the Canada-U.S. border in the south and the shores of Hudson Bay in the north.