Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew declared a state of emergency Thursday to aid the evacuation of a provincial park due to wildfires, one day after the bodies of two people were discovered.
He did not provide more details about the man and woman who died in the fire in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet.
But he said the deaths mean officials are taking the danger seriously and want additional powers to enforce evacuation orders.
An evacuation order issued for Whiteshell Provincial Park says people were to be out by Thursday afternoon. There are 239 permanent homes in the area.
“It doesn’t get more serious than loss of life and in this case we lost two fellow Manitobans,” said Kinew, adding flags have been lowered to half-mast at the legislature….