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Mass evacuation of Manitoba First Nation interrupts high school grad ceremony

By Matt Thordarson
Jun 24, 2016

More than one thousand people were evacuated from the community about 450 km north of Winnipeg because of forest fires

Matt Thordarson
APTN National News
A forest fire raging in central Manitoba has forced the evacuation of over one thousand people from a First Nation.

The blaze forced a number of people to interrupt a very special day.

 

 

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