The wildfire gnawing at the edge of Flin Flon is being fought by some 200 firefighters, but the battle is really in the hands of Mother Nature, the mayor says. 

"Generally, it depends which way the winds blow and how hard they blow and what direction they're going to come from. It's just a fluid situation," George Fontaine told Heather Hiscox on CBC Morning Live on Monday.

"I've been expecting to hear catastrophic news, and so the fact that I've not heard that has really made me feel a whole lot …