Roughly 17,000 residents in the Canadian province of Manitoba have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires, officials said Saturday. More than 5,000 of those are from Flin Flon, where there is no rain in the immediate forecast.

Massive wildfires burning out of control in western and central Canada are forcing thousands to flee. The blazes are also sending hazardous smoke toward major cities in the United States.

Wildfires in western and central Canada have forced more than 26,000 people to evacuate, including communities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, according to officials and media reports. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reports that 187 fires were burning across Canada as of Sunday, with 97 categorized as “out of control.”