NE Minnesota Under Red-Flag Warning; Walz Sends National Guard to Fight Wildfires
Walz authorized National Guard support as 16 active fires prompted fire bans, red flag warnings and evacuation standby notices in northeastern Minnesota.
- On Sunday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared a peacetime emergency and mobilized the Minnesota National Guard to assist with wildfire response efforts in northern Minnesota.
- Unusually dry conditions and lightning strikes ignited 17 wildfires in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Red Flag Warning for extreme fire risk.
- On Saturday, the U.S. Forest Service closed 225,000 acres of the BWCA after multiple wildfires broke out; the Louis County Sheriff activated standby evacuations under the "ready, set, go" protocol.
- The Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is coordinating fire suppression and evacuations with the Minnesota DNR and federal agencies.
- Temperatures reaching 100 degrees and persistent dry conditions threaten to accelerate fire spread in the Superior National Forest, which normally attracts about 150,000 summer visitors.
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NE Minnesota under red-flag warning; Walz sends National Guard to fight wildfires
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