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The province says two water bombers, a helicopter and crews were sent to fight the wildfire burning near Kingston on Sunday. (Submitted by Ryan Pitts)<\/p>\nThe province says two water bombers, a helicopter and crews were sent to fight the wildfire burning near Kingston on Sunday. (Submitted by Ryan Pitts)<\/p>\n
Residents in several communities in\u00a0Conception Bay North, N.L. are being told to prepare to evacuate as a wildfire\u00a0burning in the area\u00a0has grown\u00a0six times in size in recent hours.<\/p>\n
“Water bombers, helicopters and ground crews are actioning the fire with support from volunteer fire departments. Officials are watching the\u00a0fire behaviour very closely.<\/p>\n
“The approximate size of the wildfire is currently 150 hectares,” said\u00a0the Department of\u00a0Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture\u00a0in a social media post\u00a0issued around 10 a.m. NT on Monday.<\/p>\n
The department is\u00a0asking\u00a0residents to pay attention to government channels for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around midnight, the provincial government issued an evacuation alert,\u00a0asking\u00a0the communities from Kingston to Adam’s Cove and Broad Cove to be ready to evacuate if the call was made.<\/p>\n
“All residents are advised to make preparations for possible evacuation in case the fire spreads towards the town and evacuation is required on short notice,” the alert\u00a0advised.<\/p>\n
According to the post, on Sunday evening two water bombers, a helicopter and crews responded to the fire burning near Kingston, and estimated the fire was approximately 25 hectares in size at the time.<\/p>\n
The province\u00a0added suppression efforts would resume Monday morning.<\/p>\n
On the Facebook page for the town of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, residents were also urged to be ready to flee and keep the roads clear so emergency crews in the area could travel efficiently.<\/p>\n
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As of Monday morning, the Conception Bay North area is considered at a extreme risk of fire. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)<\/p>\n
According to the provincial wildfire map, the out-of-control fire\u00a0broke out on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The province also lists the area on\u00a0its fire hazard map as having\u00a0an extreme risk of fire.<\/p>\n
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is also asking\u00a0drivers to only travel along Route 70 near Kingston if\u00a0necessary, in order to allow emergency responders to do their work.<\/p>\n
Meteorologist Robert Grove told CBC Radio’s The St. John’s Morning Show there are “gusty” southwest winds and conditions will be dry along the coast, and\u00a0that’s “not ideal” for firefighting.<\/p>\n
“But the winds should taper off and switch directions tonight, so hopefully that will be a little bit of help,” said Grove.<\/p>\n
Recent wildfires in the province have put the Conception Bay North community on edge in recent months<\/a>.<\/p>\n A wildfire in\u00a0May\u00a0ravaged the community<\/a> of Adam’s Cove, forcing residents to evacuate and destroying 12 homes and 45 other structures.<\/p>\n ‘On edge’<\/p>\n Georgia Slade, who works at the Small Point General Store, said she found out about the evacuation alert around 1 a.m. and\u00a0she was already awake because her father, a firefighter, was\u00a0helping fight the\u00a0Kingston fire.<\/p>\n Her first reaction to the alert was to grab important documents, like her passport, as well as things that have personal significance.<\/p>\n “At this point we all kind of know what’s important to bring and what’s not important to bring. And everyone’s just kind of on edge now, at this point,” she told CBC News.<\/p>\n If an evacuation order is issued for the area, Slade said she’ll be heading “anywhere that’s out of this community.”<\/p>\n People are already dropping by the general store to get gas for their vehicles so they can be ready to leave, she added.<\/p>\n “Everyone has a little bit of panic in them but at the same time we’re like, ‘OK, if we freak out it’s just going to make matters worse.’ Everyone just does what they can,” said Slade.<\/p>\n Download our\u00a0free CBC News app<\/a>\u00a0to sign up for push alerts for CBC Newfoundland and Labrador. Sign up for our\u00a0daily headlines newsletter here<\/a>. Click\u00a0here to visit our landing page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The province says two water bombers, a helicopter and crews were sent to fight the wildfire burning near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-44613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}