{"id":45415,"date":"2025-08-04T20:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T20:39:12","slug":"evacuation-order-air-quality-warning-issued-due-to-holyrood-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45415\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation Order, Air Quality Warning Issued Due To Holyrood Wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wildfire-holyroord.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Evacuation Order, Air Quality Warning Issued Due To Holyrood Wildfire\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the area of Route 60 from Beaumont Place to the bridge at the entrance of Holyrood due to a wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>That includes people living on side roads.<\/p>\n<p>A special air quality statement has also been issued for the region due to the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>A reception area for people displaced by the fire has been set up at the C.B.S. arena at 13 Mifflen Drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous Story<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire near the Duff Straight along the Conception Bay Highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/900\/files\/2025\/08\/holyrood-fire.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276044\" class=\" wp-image-276044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/holyrood-fire-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-276044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Submitted photo)<\/p>\n<p>According to the RCMP, the main road from Beaumont Place in Holyrood to the bridge at the entrance of Holyrood (CBS side) is closed.<\/p>\n<p>Mounties are asking the public who are looking to go to Holyrood to take the TCH to get to the town.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from parts of the Conception Bay North and South are working to douse the flames.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department is warning that smoke from wildfires are drifting into the city and surrounding communities, impacting air quality.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to turn off air exchangers and HVAC units to reduce indoor exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) Residents have been ordered to leave their homes in the area of Route 60 from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-45415","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\/45415","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=45415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}