While there are a number of wildfires burning across the province, Gary Friesen, the manager of the wildfire program for Manitoba Sustainable Development, says that Thompsonites have nothing to worry about.

     He said that while there are a large number of fires burning across the province, there are not any in the Thompson area and that Thompsonites shouldn’t feel concerned.

     Friesen added that the haze in the city is from fires in British Colombia, the Northwest Territories and north-west Manitoba, and that the conditions should improve here in Thompson as they improve out west.