Thousands in Canada's Manitoba ordered to evacuate in wildfire emergency

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

More than 17,000 people in Canada’s western Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as the region experienced its worst start to the wildfire season in years.

“The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of emergency due to the wildfire situation,” Manitoba’s premier, Wab Kinew, told a news conference. “This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people’s living memory.”

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There are now 134 active fires across Canada, including in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Half are considered out of control.

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Nearly 200,000 hectares of forests have been scorched in just the past month, or triple the annual average over the previous five years, Kirstin Hayward of the Manitoba wildfire service said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/29/canada-wildfires-manitoba-province-fire-evacuation

[LoisB]

1. May The Universe help them.

[BidenRocks]

2. We need MAFFs

Mobile Airborne Fire Fighting System.
It goes into a C-130 and you have an air tanker.
There are thousands of operational 130s and the need is EXTREME!
These should be everywhere due to multiple fires stretching existing resources.

[SunSeeker]

3. Sounds bad. Poor Canada, they don't deserve this.