Wildfire tears through Manitoba wilderness camp near Flin Flon

A wildfire raged Sunday day astatine a distant wilderness campy extracurricular of Flin Flon, Man., RCMP say.

Officers were called astir 1:30 p.m. astir ample amounts of fume adjacent Camp Whitney, and erstwhile they arrived, they recovered nan site’s main room afloat engulfed successful flames, which had dispersed to different adjacent structures.

RCMP contacted provincial occurrence crews, who dropped foam onto nan occurrence from a h2o bomber, while members of nan Flin Flon Fire Department helped extinguish nan blaze from nan ground.

After it was nether control, constabulary cleared nan campy and wished that nary 1 had been location astatine nan time. The campsite, RCMP said, had been rented, but nan group had near nan campy earlier that morning, and it had been closed up by a caretaker.

Although constabulary opportunity they haven’t recovered thing suspicious, nan Office of nan Fire Commissioner continues to analyse nan fire’s cause. Firefighters proceed to show nan area for immoderate further flare-ups.

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