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A Canadian prairie city virtually deserted as fires rage and thousands more evacuees expected
AP News ^ | Updated 6:07 PM CDT, May 30, 2025 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/30/2025 6:47:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 05/30/2025 6:47:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Doesn’t “depart Flin Flon” sound phony?

Like a Godzilla IV sequel where “pray for rain” was answered by school girls singing in unison and Godzilla arriving and then urinating on the fires to quickly put them out?


2 posted on 05/30/2025 6:50:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Kid Shelleen; lightman

Two things: Flon Flon is the home town of Flyers great, Bobby Clarke.

Two: is it me or has Canada had a nasty wildfire that ultimately fouls American air quality in each of the past two summers?


3 posted on 05/30/2025 6:53:04 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh no! There goes some fishing trips!


4 posted on 05/30/2025 6:58:31 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Wait, where is Karen Bass right now?


5 posted on 05/30/2025 6:59:17 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: DoodleBob

It is not just you.

https://fire.airnow.gov


6 posted on 05/30/2025 6:59:20 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow 😲


7 posted on 05/30/2025 7:04:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Two: is it me or has Canada had a nasty wildfire that ultimately fouls American air quality in each of the past two summers?

Flin Flon is pretty far north, so Manitoba and some of Saskatchewan will get it before North Dakota.

The town name is based on a character in a 1905 fantasy mining novel.
8 posted on 05/30/2025 7:08:26 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My wife was born and raised in Flin Flon. She’s definitely saddened, this looks like a repeat of what happened to Jasper and Red Deer in Alberta.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 7:13:59 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dog River needs to stay vigilant.


10 posted on 05/30/2025 7:16:18 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Is this town sitting on a lithium deposit?


11 posted on 05/30/2025 7:17:12 PM PDT by Norski
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The town name is based on a character in a 1905 fantasy mining novel.

I just found out that Al Capp designed the town's statue of that character.

12 posted on 05/30/2025 7:17:31 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder who set the fires so they can blame climate change?


13 posted on 05/30/2025 7:23:56 PM PDT by Greg123456
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To: Norski

Volcanogenic massive sulfide. Mostly copper and zinc mined, some gold and silver.


14 posted on 05/30/2025 7:27:36 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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I wonder who set the fires so they can blame climate change?

Good question.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/climate/canada-conspiracy-theorist-arson-wildfires-intl/index.html

15 posted on 05/30/2025 7:34:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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It’s Canada, they’ll blame President Trump.


16 posted on 05/30/2025 8:09:58 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: Greg123456

Most likely a commie antifa agitator.


17 posted on 05/30/2025 9:36:35 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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“The town name is based on a character in a 1905 fantasy mining novel.”

Thanks, I was wondering about that. Flin Flon sounds more like a dog shampoo for poodles.


18 posted on 05/30/2025 10:08:10 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump Is Superman)
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Flin Flon? These guys missed it:

There’s a province up in Canada that’s right next door to ours.
It’s called Saskatchewan.
And, uh, in that province there’s a small town, uh, where nothing much ever happens, called Saskatoon.
This is a tune about that town.
This is called “Runnin’ Back To Saskatoon”.

I been hangin’ around gas stations
I been learnin’ ‘bout tires
I been talkin’ to grease monkeys
I been workin’ on cars

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin’ around libraries
I been learnin’ ‘bout books
I been talkin’ to play writers
I been workin’ on words, phrases

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin’ around hospitals
I been learnin’ ‘bout dyin’
I been talkin’ to heart doctors
I been workin’ on disease

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

This tune is home grown
Don’t come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don’t come from Hong Kong

I been hangin’ around grain elevators
I been learnin’ ‘bout food
I been talkin’ to soil farmers
I been workin’ on land

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin’ around camera stores
I been learnin’ ‘bout sight
I been talkin’ to film makers
I been workin’ on eyes

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

This tune is home grown
Don’t come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don’t come from Hong Kong


19 posted on 05/30/2025 10:49:40 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wonder if this is still the same fire from last year or is this the new reality for Canada, new wildfires every year.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 11:59:43 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis icShouldn't shetu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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