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FIREFIGHTING crews are working to protect Manitoba Hydro infrastructure near a massive, out-of-control blaze in the isolated northern Interlake.
FIREFIGHTING crews are working to protect Manitoba Hydro infrastructure near a massive, out-of-control blaze in the isolated northern Interlake.
The 345,000-acre wildfire, situated in forests off Lake Manitoba’s northeastern tip, is more than 80 kilometres long and approximately 16-km wide at its largest point. It sparked May 12.
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The Cloverdale fire - as it has been called by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) - has grown to almost 4,000 hectares and is burning not far from Prince Albert, north of the North Saskatchewan river about five kilometres northeast of the city. The fire includes portions in the Nisbet Provincial Forest and is considered as not contained by the SPSA and was first reported to authorities Sunday night. The City of Prince Albert has declared a local state of emergency and an evacuation order has been put in place for all residents working north of Highway 55, east of Cloverdale Road and
CBC Manitoba meteorologist Jon Sauder reports that a cold front passing through the region will bring a change in the weather sometime around midday on Wednesday.
After that comes an extended period of wet and cooler weather, with showers or periods of rain from Thursday through Saturday, he forecast.
The forecast says Thursday will have the heaviest rain, but showers will become more scattered on Friday and Saturday. We re really heading into a very unsettled pattern, Moodie said, which will stir up some pockets of precipitation. So not a broad swath of area is likely going to get showers.
More significant rain will fall in the Red River Valley and southeastern Manitoba on Thursday, with the possibility of some thunderstorms, she said.
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