Leaf Rapids is evacuating all firefighters and essential workers after an out-of-control wildfire entered the northern community on Wednesday night. 

In a statement posted to Facebook at 8:15 p.m., the town's administration said the wildfire burning northwest of the town jumped the Churchill River and began spreading through the community's industrial area. 

The province's wildfire map showed that fire was more than 2,500 hectares in size as of Tuesday. It is the smallest of the three major wildf…