While European media coverage is focussing on the crisis in Fort McMurray in Alberta province, fires are raging across other parts of Canada as well. The above 300 m PROBA-V image, from May 9, 2016, depicts fires to the east of Lake Winnipeg, near the border of Manitoba and Ontario.
The large fire in the centre of the image affects Nopiming Provincial Park, the area to the west Beresford Lake up to southern parts of the South Atikaki Park Reserve and Lake Wallace, spanning more than
73 000 hectares on May 11, as reported by the Manitoba government.
The plume of a smaller fire, that threatened homes and lodges in Whiteshell Provincial Park, is visible further south in the image, near Caddy and West Hawk Lakes.
By contrast, the yellow-orange colours in the southwest partially depict the city of Winnipeg.