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While it was a wet weekend for most of Saskatchewan, most of the rainfall didn’t reach their northern section of the province that is experiencing the wildfires.  

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency said in their latest wildfire update on Monday that the recent rainfall only had a limited impact on the wildfires.  

Canada's 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record.

The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest the fires have torn through 72,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of New Brunswick.

That surpasses the next worst season in 1989 and is about half the area burned during the record-setting 2023 season, according to a federal database of wildfire seasons dating back to 1972.

The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs says it's time for Ottawa to stop studying the idea of a national forest fire co-ordination agency and take action.

The organization's president wants the federal government to take inspiration from the U.S. Fire Administration to establish a similar office in Canada.

The U.S. office is part of Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, but Ken McMullen says a Canadian version could be simpler and less costly.

As we head into the first week of August, the northern wildfires are showing no signs of slowing down in Saskatchewan.  

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) issued an update on the wildfires on Tuesday. 

Local resident Alyssa Hergott stepped up in a big way over the last week, volunteering her time and efforts to support firefighting and relief operations amid the ongoing wildfires in northern Saskatchewan. 

She returned on Sunday after helping for a week. 

The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August, federal officials said on Friday.

More than 5.5 million hectares of land have burned so far this year, more than double the 10-year average for mid-July.

That is still well behind the record fire season in 2023, when more than 6,000 fires burned more than 15 million hectares of land.

There were 561 fires burning as of Friday, including 69 that were considered out of control.

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) issued an update on the wildfire situation in northern Saskatchewan on Tuesday afternoon. 

As of 11:00 am, there were 50 active wildfires in Saskatchewan. Of those active fires, four are categorized as contained, 12 are not contained, 18 are ongoing assessment, and 16 are listed as protecting values. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to convene the Incident Response Group in Ottawa today to discuss the ongoing wildfire situation across the country.

Carney also convened the group of ministers and senior officials a little over a month ago in response to an earlier wave of wildfires, which peaked in May and June, then receded, and have now flared up again.

More than 6,000 people are currently out of their homes in Manitoba, and the communities of Lynn Lake and Snow Lake ordered residents to flee for the second time in just weeks.

Six Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to Canada's ambassador calling for action on the wildfires sending smoke billowing across the international border into their states.

In a Tuesday letter to Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, representatives Tom Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach, Glenn Grothman and Pete Stauber of Wisconsin and Minnesota said their constituents are coping with suffocating smoke from Canadian wildfires.

According to a press release issued by the City of Weyburn today, members of the Weyburn Fire Department are stepping up to answer the call to help battle the wildfires threatening northern Saskatchewan communities.

A team of three members from the Weyburn Fire Department (WFD), along with a wildland utility truck and supporting equipment, deployed to the Beauval area early Friday morning. Their assistance was requested by the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) as part of the province’s coordinated wildfire response.