{"id":238499,"date":"2026-05-20T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:46:12","slug":"region-of-queens-reports-wildfire-in-east-port-lhebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238499\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens reports wildfire in East Port L\u2019Hebert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nova Scotia<\/a>\u00b7New<\/p>\n<p>Municipality asks residents to stay out of the area to allow firefighters to do their work.<\/p>\n<p>Municipality asks residents to stay out of the area to allow firefighters to do their work<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: May 20, 2026 4:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 16 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A firefighter uniform is folded up under a fire helmet. They are both resting on the front bumper of a fire truck\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779309972_54_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The Region of Queens Municipality is asking residents to stay out of the area to allow firefighters to do their work. (mat277\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n<p>The Region of Queens Municipality is asking residents to stay away as firefighters respond to a wildfire in the community of East Port L\u2019Hebert, N.S.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook Wednesday afternoon, the municipality said Nova Scotia&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources with support from several Queens County fire departments are on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents are asked to stay out of the area to allow firefighters to do their work. If there is a change in the situation, we will post an update,&#8221; the post continued.<\/p>\n<p>The fire comes as Nova Scotia experiences its first hot day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada issued a heat warning for Queens County that is expected to remain in place until the evening on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures were expected to reach 32 C on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>MORE TOP STORIES<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia\u00b7New Municipality asks residents to stay out of the area to allow firefighters to do their work.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-238499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}