Iowa's hazy skies are due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires. As many as 17,000 people in Canada are being evacuated as hundreds of thousands of acres are scorched, according to USA TODAY.

FILE PHOTO: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) patrol vehicle is parked as a water bomber flies over the plume of smoke from a wildfire near The Pas, Manitoba, Canada May 27, 2025. Manitoba RCMP/Handout via REUTERS

As wildfires burn across northern Saskatchewan, the community of La Ronge is blanketed in smoke — and grappling with fear and uncertainty.

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"This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people's living memory," the province's premier said.