Chief Fire Prevention Officer Randy Manych said there were a lot of emergency calls made on Saturday August 19th
According to Manych there was smoke in town from the forest fires and people were making phone calls because they were under the impression that there were fires in town.
Manych says that people need to be aware that when there is smoke that unless they have an exact location of where the smoke is coming from to refrain from calling 911. Forest fire information can be found online at: gov.mb.ca.
