Provincial fire ban issued for large part of northern Sask.

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A occurrence prohibition has been issued by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency for a ample portion of the province's north, effectual arsenic of 5 p.m. Thursday.

Open fires, controlled burns and fireworks prohibited successful designated areas

Aishwarya Dudha · CBC News

· Posted: May 08, 2025 9:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

An aerial photograph  shows wood  burned by a fire.

A record photograph shows burned wood adjacent Weyakwin, Sask., successful July 2015. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency issued a occurrence prohibition for portion of the province's northbound connected Thursday. (Liam Richards/The StarPhoenix/The Canadian Press pool)

A occurrence prohibition has been issued by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency for a ample portion of the province's north, effectual arsenic of 5 p.m. Thursday. 

It includes areas northbound of the provincial wood bound to the Churchill River and is meant to halt human-caused fires, the bureau said successful a quality release.

The prohibition prohibits unfastened fires, controlled burns and fireworks successful the designated area, including successful provincial parks, recreation sites and the Northern Saskatchewan Administration District successful the area.

A database of occurrence restrictions successful provincial parks and recreation sites tin beryllium recovered here.

The occurrence prohibition is indispensable "to support lives, communities, large infrastructure, and resources from wildfire," nationalist information bureau vice-president of operations Steve Roberts said successful the quality release. 

Roberts said the main origin of the existent wildfires is quality enactment that tin beryllium prevented. 

The bureau said 28 wildfires were burning successful the state arsenic of Thursday afternoon.

So far, determination person been a full of 133 wildfires successful Saskatchewan this year, according to the quality release.

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Aishwarya Dudha is simply a newsman for CBC Saskatchewan based successful Saskatoon. She specializes successful immigration, justness and taste issues and elevating voices of susceptible people. She has antecedently worked for CBC News Network and Global News. You tin email her astatine [email protected]

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