Wildfires grow but threat level does not
Two of the three uncontrolled wildfires raging in the Pelican Narrows area have increased in size, but officials insist there is no increase in threat.
The continuing hot and dry weather and fluctuating wind direction has seen the fires grow. These conditions are not expected to change in the coming days. One of the fires is close to Jan Lake and Birch Portage, while another remains within three kilometres of Pelican Narrows. All three of those communities have been evacuated.
“The conditions have posed some challenges for our crews but has not increased the threat to any of the values [property and infrastructure],” Steve Roberts with Wildfire Management said in a media call Friday.
He said while the scale of the two bigger fires – 88,000 hectares and 38,000 hectares – was not small, the main issue was the combination of three fires in such close proximity.