Wildfires force another 1,000 residents from their homes in the Canadian province of Manitoba WSOC TV [Video]

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — (AP) — Wildfires forced a further 1,000 people to flee their homes in Manitoba, one of two Canadian provinces under a state of emergency that has led to thousands of evacuations.

The town of Snow Lake, Manitoba, issued a mandatory evacuation order for its residents Friday as a large wildfire threatens the area.

That fire, which has now grown to more than 3,000 square kilometers (1,058 square miles, or over twice the size of Los Angeles), has already forced out all 5,000 residents of the nearby city of Flin Flon and a thousand more in surrounding cottages and homes.

When the Snow Lake evacuees are added in, Manitoba has about 19,000 displaced from their homes. There are 27 total fires in the province of Manitoba, eight of them out of control.

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires has worsened air qualityin eastern Canada and the U.S. The fires have sent smoke as far as …