Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew ordered a provincewide state of emergency Wednesday as his province struggles with a series of crippling wildfires, mainly in the remote north. At a late afternoon news conference, Kinew said he spoke to Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has agreed to send in the military. He said they are working with the Forces to immediately deploy evacuation flights. Fires have forced 17,000 people across several communities and First Nations to flee, Kinew said, in what he believes is Manitoba’s largest such exodus in living memory. Evacuees are to seek shelter in Winnipeg, he added. “Pray for Flin Flon, pray for Pimicikamak, pray for Mathias Colomb, pray for Cross Lake, pray for everybody in Manitoba who’s out of their homes right now,” he said. The evacuations include…
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