The wildfire situation threatening the northwestern Manitoba community of Cranberry Portage is not getting better — but it's not getting worse and that is a small victory, says the municipal emergency coordinator for the region.This was Cranberry Portage resident Keith Jaeger's view of the flames over First Cranberry Lake on Saturday night.
"We've pretty much filled up The Pas, Swan River, probably all the way down to Dauphin. But everyone's safe, which is our priority," Forbes said, speaking to CBC News from The Pas, where a reception centre is established at the Wescana Inn to register evacuees and to arrange for accommodations.
"The only folks that are in that community now are the wildfire services that are still monitoring … all of the homes the structures," Forbes said about Cranberry Portage.Strong northerly winds on Sunday pushed the fire smoke hundreds of kilometres south in Manitoba, creating air quality warnings well into Winnipeg. As of Monday, there are air quality statements only for the immediate region around the fires.
Highway 10 from Bakers Narrows to Highway 39 is closed due to poor visibility caused by the smoke, as is the Sherridon access road at the junction of Highway 10, according to the province.showing just under 800 people affected by outages in the area of Portage Cranberry and nearby Bakers Narrows as of Monday.
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