Overview
- The evacuation takes effect Friday with a bus departure scheduled for 10 a.m. to transport roughly 600 residents
- A reception centre has been set up in Brandon, more than 1,100 kilometres south of Lynn Lake, to shelter evacuees
- Manitoba Hydro reports the blaze has advanced to within two kilometres of the transmission line feeding the town
- Town officials warn nearby blazes to the southeast could sever the only road connection between Lynn Lake and Thompson
- The Manitoba government says there are 60 active wildfires in the province, 17 of which remain out of control