Wildfire Activity in Manitoba 2025

[Blueforlife]

Air quality better in North Whiteshell as of late

[Blueforlife]

Terrible air quality North Whiteshell recently but finally cleared a bit, exceptional air quality today but winds will shift and bring the smoke back tomorrow

[blue_gold_84]

Wildfire smoke far more dangerous to health than thought, say scientists

[blue_gold_84]

Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality

[markf]

" It's official: as of September 3, Vancouver has the worst air quality in the entire world. The last time this happened was in 2022 when there were a considerable number of wildfires blazing all throughout British Columbia. This summer has been just as bad, so it's no surprise to learn that Vancouver is at the top of the charts."

Unsurprisingly, this is due to B.C.'s wildfire situation. Vancouver's weather hasn't helped it much as the province has seen 6,047 lightning strikes in the last five days, according to BC Wildfire Service. A hot and dry summer has allowed wildfires to continue burning, with windy conditions helping to fan the flames."

I live on Vancouver island. It has been horrendous here as well at times. Record highs regularly being hit, and streams drying up. Forests bone dry.

Unfortunately nobody seems to care much beyond lip service.

Province is busy promoting lng.

[Pigskin]

Headed out to Lac Du Bonnet today. Sad. 28 cabins completely destroyed. A large number of properties with some damage to a lot of damage. Friends home/cabin completely gone. Garage, boat, boat house, dock, miner damage. They will probably move into our Bird River cabin, until they finish rebuilding there home. Feel very lucky our Bird River cabin has no damage.

Lots of good funding raising going on. But, there are some scams.   

Update: Our friends got back into there Lac Du Bonnet property on November 9th. With a lot of hard work, and a lot of volunteers the properties in there area were cleared and power was restored late this fall. They decided to bring in a pre-build home and last Thursday it was delivered. Over the course of the next couple of days the power and plumbing was hooked up. So happy to see them back home.