Manitoba extends wildfire state of emergency as 14,000 remain out of homes
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This article was published 07/08/2025 (231 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government says its provincewide state of emergency is being extended as 14,000 remain out of their homes due to intense wildfires.
Officials last month declared the state of emergency, its second since May, and it was set to expire Friday.
The extension keeps it in place for two more weeks.
The province says the fire season is its worst in 30 years, and more than 15,500 square kilometres have burned.
Roughly 4,000 residents of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, also called Nelson House, were ordered out last weekend, as two fires threatened to cut off road access and muddied air quality.
Chief Angela Levasseur says on social media that Indigenous Services Canada has given the OK for the Cree Nation to shelter 800 residents at hotels in Niagara Falls, Ont.
Some evacuees from Tataskweyak Cree Nation were also sent to Niagara Falls earlier this summer.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 7, 2025.