Monday, August 8, 2011

MNR Hoping weather will help their fight against forest fires

The Ministry of Natural Resources is hoping the weather this week will help them combat more than 130 fires burning in the region.

There are 41-forest fires alone burning in the Red Lake area.

Ministry of Natural Resources Information Officer Kathy Crampton says the lightning caused fire is 32-hundred hectares in size and growing.

Heavy smoke from the fires was blowing into the Kenora area and parts of southern

Manitoba over the weekend.