{"id":238626,"date":"2026-05-20T22:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238626\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:18:46","slug":"crews-battle-out-of-control-wildfire-in-queens-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238626\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle &#8216;out-of-control&#8217; wildfire in Queens County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters are on the scene of an out-of-control wildfire in the Queens County community of East Port L\u2019Hebert, N.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nova Scotia&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources told CBC News in an email just after 6 p.m. on Wednesday that the fire is estimated to be three hectares in size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The province&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/nova-scotia-contracted-aircraft-for-wildfire-season-9.7198435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:four new 802 fixed wing air tankers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;four new 802 fixed wing air tankers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">four new 802 fixed wing air tankers<\/a>, bird dog and a DNR helicopter are on site along with DNR firefighters and three volunteer fire departments, the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Region of Queens Municipality is asking residents to stay away from the area &#8220;to allow firefighters to do their work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;If there is a change in the situation, we will post an update,&#8221; a Facebook post from the Region of Queens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire comes as Nova Scotia experiences its first hot day of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Temperatures were expected to reach 32 C on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORE TOP STORIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are on the scene of an out-of-control wildfire in the Queens County community of East Port L\u2019Hebert,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,1629,124,123,39185],"class_list":["post-238626","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-county","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-volunteer-fire-departments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238626","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=238626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}