A provincewide state of emergency is no longer in effect due to improving wildfire conditions, though risks remain for over a dozen communities that still aren’t clear of wildfire threats.
Premier Wab Kinew announced the end to the Manitoba emergency order during a Monday news conference. It was originally issued May 28 amid a spate of wildfires that forced thousands to evacuate rural and northern communities.
Kinew credited the end of the state of emergency to ongoing wildfire suppression efforts, favourable recent weather conditions and the “good nature and hard work” of Manitobans, particularly in the north and east, where people have been able to start returning home.
