About 50 cottages and residences on Caddy Lake are being evacuated Monday morning, as a wildfire on the Manitoba-Ontario border continues to burn out of control.
Officials from Manitoba Conservation and the Southeast Whiteshell Fire department began going door-to-door around 8 a.m. Monday, asking people on the east side of Caddy Lake to leave their cottages.
The wildfire now covers about 2,800 hectares and is about six kilometres away from Caddy Lake. On Friday, the fire was about 700 hectares.
Manitoba Conservation is setting up sprinklers on the cabins as a precautionary measure.
On Thursday, the fire forced the evacuation of about 100 residents in Ingolf, Ontario. Remote cottages near Macdougalls landing on the north shore of West Hawk Lake were also evacuated over the weekend.
Another forest fire burning about 200 kilometres north in Nopiming Provincial Park is causing the evacuation of about 60 cottages on Wallace Lake Monday morning. Officials say that fire is now about 50,000 hectares, five times larger than it was on Friday.
Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources says high winds over the weekend caused the fires to grow rapidly.
Manitoba Sustainable Development says McDougalls Landing, West Hawk Lake, Florence Lake and Nora Lake are all affected by the wildfires.
Roads and trails in Whiteshell Provincial Park remain closed, and burning permits in much of the province have been cancelled.
--- With files from Beth Macdonell and Josh Crabb.
