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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the recovery effort is now underway amid the weekslong fight to contain several wildfires near the Arrowhead region, but warned "they will not be the last of this summer."
Minnesota is in a perfect position for overhead auroras, but the smoke will be key to how much visibility there is. All of Minnesota is in an air quality alert due to smoke from Canadian wildfires flowing through the sky, and some of the smoke will reach near the surface.
Gov. Tim Walz was joined by leaders of both the DNR, the Department of Public Safety and the National Weather Service to also discuss the fire situation and outlook across the state.
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All evacuation orders prompted by wildfires north of Duluth, Minnesota, have been lifted, officials said Monday.
Dozens of fires are burning in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, causing evacuations and states of emergency as smoke is being blown into the Midwest, causing air quality alerts.
A Manitoba-wide state of emergency was declared because of the wildfires in the north, east, and western parts of Manitoba.
WCCO has been reporting for weeks about the impacts of the northeastern Minnesota wildfires on the ground and in the air, but new research shows it could also impact the state's waterways.
A team of Colorado River Fire Rescue’s wildland firefighters is on the ground in northern Minnesota this week, helping to suppress the growing Horse River Fire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.