Fire crews from around the province and the United States are currently in Thompson to fight the fire north of town, with more on the way.

While the fire is being held and efforts to protect important assets are ongoing,  Mayor Colleen Smook made a request on City Beat yesterday.

“Thompson is not the place to just come to holiday at this point. We need to save our hotel rooms and our resources for all the fire fighting people that we have coming through town.”

A province-wide state of emergency was issued again yesterday, the second since May, due to the worsening of some fires here in the north.

Communities like Snow Lake and Lynn Lake are seeing their second evacuations in just over a month, while Leaf Rapids and Garden Hill First Nation were also evacuated this week.

Thompson is NOT currently under an evacuation order.

For more wildfire updates go to the City of Thompson facebook page.