Latest updates:
- Four forest fires are out of control in NL
- Kingston Fire grew up to more than 5,000 hectares.
- Martin Lake Fire is 255 hectares.
- Holyrood’s fire is sustaining.
- Evacuation Orders for Kingston, Perry’s Cove, Western Bay, Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, Oceher Pit Cove, Salmon Cove, Burnt Point-Gull Island-Northern Bay.
- The evacuation orders are still in place for the cabin area in front of Route 360, the Bay d’E spoir highway, extended to Rushy Pond.
- The city of Victoria is on an evacuation alert.
- The heat warning still in force is expected to last until Thursday.
- Regional Emergency Status for the Green Bay Peninsula.
- Two fires burning in Labrador, 19 km south of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
There are four forest fires that burn control in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the Provincial Forest Fire Board.
On Saturday, a regional state of emergency was declared for the Peninsula Bay of Green in Newfoundland and Labrador, from Bristol’s hope to Whiteway.
Kingston’s forest fire remains out of control in Conception Bay North and provincial fire service officer Mark Lawlor said it has grown to more than 5,000 hectares of size, but from Sunday night they could not map it due to smoked conditions.
“It has been a difficult weekend,” Lawlor told CBC Radio The morning program of San Juan.
Lawlor said that current hot and dry climatic conditions are not helping efforts to combat fire.
“There is still fuel ahead of the fire, and with the winds of the southwest and southwest it will continue to push it … by the green bay peninsula.”
He said that the water bombers will focus on the north limit of the fire, adding that their firefighters difficult to put there safely because it is where the fire is more active.
On Sunday there were four water bombers working in its northern limit, as well as helicopters flying around the communities, taking hot points and trying to minimize the damage, Lawlor said.
He added that the teams could work in the southern and southwest limits of the fire. The Canada Coast Guard also helped with its helicopter assets to move crews and carry out the survey work.
“It is great. However, and not minimizing this, the fire in Central in 2020 was approximately 25,000 hectares,” he said.
Lawlor said the equipment continues to build a fire guard in the southern border of the fire, eliminating the vegetation so that the fire has less fuel.
Lawlor said the hoses now surround the Holyrood fire, which appears on the list. On Sunday morning, the teams only found two or three hot points and could take them out.
“So that’s positive there.”
Lawlor said that Lake Martin is still out of control and is still considered “very active.” During the weekend, the fire increased slightly in size, but said they maintain its southern limit.
A water bomber and New Brunswick’s aerial tractors were working on the fire on Sunday.
Lawlor said there is a progress by building a fire guard on the north side of the fire and hopes will be done in the next few days.
He also believes that the fire is about four kilometers from the Bay d’E spoir highway and, although the road is still open, he said that could change.
Travelers along the road will see and smell smoke, but Lawlor hopes they can minimize the amount of smoke and prevent the fire from moving towards the road.
According to the Provincial Forest Fire Board, in Labrador there are two forest fires that burn out of control, the Fire of the Udjuktok Bay and the Fire Traverspine, located 19 kilometers to the south of Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
According to the provincial fire danger map, until Monday morning, the vast majority of the island of Newfoundland has an extreme fire risk, while Labrador covers from a low to very high risk.
A prohibition of fires of the province blank and on Friday the provincial government announced that fines for violating the ban are now $ 50,000 to $ 150,000, and up to a year in prison.
On Monday, the Regional Fire Department of St. John reported that he had notified the authorities of three illegal fires during the night.
The provincial government announced in a position on social networks that the health authority is temporarily opening an emerging primary care clinic in the community health services building on Monday.
‘Little relief’
Veronica Sullivan meteorologist said the prognosis is still poor to fight forest fires.
She said that the northern and northwest Peninsula will have high temperatures on Monday and that winds will blow from the southwest to 30 kilometers per hour, bursts of up to 50 kilometers per hour.
“It is not good for the behavior of fire and spread. Those strong winds and dry conditions make it really difficult to fight against the propagation of forest fires,” Radio’s told CBC’s The morning program of San Juan.
Environment Canada has warm warnings in Newfoundland and Labrador and Sullivan said he hopes that the heat warning for northern Avalon and East Newfoundland persist until later in the week.
“So we will not see a postponement of that heat until it arrives on Thursday,” said Sullivan.
A low pressure system could bring some showers east of Newfoundland, he said, but added that he is several days away and the prognosis could change.
“Until then, it is more of the same, only temperatures of bad mood and little relief at night, since the minimums during the night are between 18 and 20 degrees.”
Mark Plowman, a councilor of Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, said the city is helping evacuated with things like transport and access to medication.
“We are there not only for our residents, but also for the residents of the surrounding communities that are our neighbors, who are in non -incorporated municipalities.”
He said that people who have homes that have been destroyed have been notified.
Plowman said the evacuees face great dilemmas, such as waiting for the news about when they can return to their homes and if their homes are still standing or if there is damage by smoke. He added that the power was cut to the community, so it could be food.
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