Manitoba
Wildfire near Lynn Lake started at mining site after burn piles weren't properly extinguished: search warrant
Alamos Gold disputes claim, says it followed provincial permit rules for controlled burns
Provincial investigators looking into the cause of this spring's wildfire near Lynn Lake, Man., allege it started at the nearby Alamos Gold Inc. mining site and that the company was negligent because it didn't use water to extinguish its burn piles, according to search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.
Manitoba Conservation investigators allege the fire, which eventually grew to over 85,000 hectares, started on May 7 after a burn pile reignited at the Toronto-based gold producer's MacLellan mine site, about 7.5 kilometres northeast of Lynn Lake.
By late May, the fire had come within five kilometres of Lynn Lake and forced the evacuation of the nearly 600 residents of the town, which is roughly 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Dozens of properties in the area were destroyed.
Early estimates peg damage from the fire at around $10 million, and the cleanup has involved a "tremendous amount of work," said Lynn Lake Mayor Brandon Dulewich, who also works as a firefighter with the local fire department.
"It's a tough pill to swallow, knowing that it's not something that just spontaneously happened," Dulewich said in an Aug. 27 interview.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...lake-1.7630488
may 7th burge lake mu pic
20 days later a friend shot this when all crews were evacuaiting as no one knew wth was guna happen overnight after it overtook burge as a rank 6 i was in wpg during this returned that saturday been here since holding the fort between 2 towns.
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