The mayor of a northern Manitoba city that came under serious threat from wildfires encroaching on its borders this summer says things are starting to return to normal.

Flin Flon’s George Fontaine told Global Winnipeg that when residents returned from being evacuated, they came back to some semblance of normalcy, with community leaders and business owners trying to maintain the status quo.

“(Things have) been going incredibly smoothly,” Fontaine said.

“We got back, thinking we wouldn’t have any groceries … but we have one big grocery store in our community, and it was almost fully stocked. The people there did incredible work to set things up for us.

“Other emergency businesses were set up in a very methodical fashion, so when people came back, there were very few glitches.”

The mayor

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