Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has declared another province-wide state of emergency due to the wildfires in the northern part of the province.
“The primary reason that we have called this latest state of emergency is because we need access to more facilities to be able to shelter this large number of Manitobans who are being forced to flee their homes due to wildfires,” Kinew said at a July 10 press conference.
The province last declared a state of emergency due to the wildfires at the end of May.
As of July 10, there are 12 states of local emergency in the province, while nine communities are under mandatory evacuation orders with two new evacuations declared within the past 24 hours, said Assistant Deputy Minister Christine Stevens, who is responsible for the province’s wildfire service and also spoke at the press conference….