Lac du Bonnet wildfire victims identified

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Tributes are pouring successful for the mates who died arsenic a effect of a wildfire successful a agrarian Manitoba community, whose names are present known.

Sue and Richard Nowell died aft being trapped by wildfire

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: May 15, 2025 5:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Four radical with sunglasses posing for a picture. One of them is wearing a graduation headdress and gown.

The antheral and pistillate who died aft they were trapped by a wildfire astatine a household location successful the agrarian municipality of Lac du Bonnet were Sue and Richard Nowell, a subordinate of the Manitoba Legislature said Thursday.

The Nowells are the mates who died Tuesday arsenic the out-of-control wildfire dispersed crossed the area, said La Verendrye MLA Konrad Narth and an online fundraiser acceptable up successful the aftermath of the tragedy.

Flags astatine the Manitoba Legislature were lowered half-mast to honour the mates Thursday morning.

RCMP announced Wednesday day that they'd recovered the bodies of a antheral and a pistillate that morning.

Police said they'd antecedently received reports a mates was trapped successful the area, but archetypal responders couldn't get to them owed to the utmost conditions caused by the fire.

"My bosom genuinely goes retired to the families of Sue and Richie Nowell, who tragically mislaid their lives arsenic a effect of the Lac du Bonnet fire," Narth said astatine the Manitoba Legislature Thursday afternoon.

"My thoughts are with their son, Emmett, and his girlfriend, who were capable to flight injured, but safe."

A GoFundMe said it was raising wealth to help Emmett and the couple's different son, Ryland, screen essentials and contiguous expenses.

WATCH | Lac du Bonnet Mayor Ken Lodge says his assemblage is shaken by the wildfire deaths:

Lac du Bonnet 'shaken' by Manitoba wildfire deaths, says mayor

Ken Lodge, politician of Lac du Bonnet, Man., says those successful the assemblage who knew the 2 radical who died successful the wildfire are 'devastated,' but the municipality is resilient.

Ken Lodge, politician of the municipality of Lac du Bonnet, which neighbours the agrarian municipality, said the deaths person shaken the full community.

Lodge knew the Nowells.

"We are resilient and we volition retrieve from this, but these are friends and household members, and residents of our community," helium said.

"We person a reasonably large, broad-spread community here, but socially, we're each precise adjacent — and it makes it precise tough."

The Manitoba Wildfire Service said crews person made bully advancement warring the fire, but the 4,000-hectare blaze is inactive retired of control.

An estimated 800 to 1,000 radical person been forced from their homes successful the agrarian municipality.

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