Provincial investigators looking into the cause of this spring's wildfire near Lynn Lake, Man., allege it started at the nearby Alamos Gold Inc. mining site and that the company was negligent because it didn't use water to extinguish its burn piles, according to search warrant documents obtained by CBC News.

Manitoba Conservation investigators allege the fire, which eventually grew to over 85,000 hectares , started on May 7 after a burn pile reignited at the Toronto-based gold producer's MacLellan mine site, about 7.5 kilometres northeast of Lynn Lake.

By late May, the fire had come within five kilometres of Lynn Lake and forced the evacuation of the nearly 600 residents of the town, which is roughly 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. Dozens of properties in the area were destro

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