The forest fires that burn in the Peninsula of Avalon de Terranova have forced hundreds of people from several communities to flee their homes and others to be ready to leave if the call arrives.
On Monday, residents in the communities of Conceptation Bay North of Small Point – Adam’s Cove – Blackhead – Broad Cove and Kingston were told to evacuate due to a forest fire in flames near Kingston. Then, around 11:30 pm, the city of Western Bay was told to evacuateWith people in the nearby eight Pit Cove that are told to be prepared to flee if necessary.
A new fire near Holyrood caused the partial evacuation of residents, and the city of Conception Bay South also evacuated the area of the Concepta Bay highway to the west of Seal Cove Road.
“We have had an interesting fire season, to say the least,” said provincial fire service officer Jeff Motty A CBC Radio The morning program of San Juan Tuesday.
On Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister John Hogan said the fire had doubled more than 700 hectares during the night.
The teams were fighting against fire until Monday night and said they expected to see a break in the behavior of fire at night due to greater humidity, but instead there was an increase in fire behavior around 7:30.
“We have seen conditions similar to drought since the beginning of the season and we started our early season,” said Motty, pointing out the fire in May that forced an evacuation of Adam’s Cove residents and destroyed 12 houses and another 45 structures.
Motty said the plan for Tuesday morning is to evaluate the fire and determine the best way to fight it, adding that they will have crews, water bombers and helicopters on the scene.
But I could not say if the fire had damaged something in the communities.
Motty also said that the cause of the fire is currently under investigation, and added that there has been ray in the area, but that the fire can be caused by humans, possibly referring to the suspicions of CBC News has reported the residents of Conception Bay North that He believes that it could be a cause caused.
“I’m not making a call for a judgment, one way or another,” Motty said.
Motty said the two fires, one near Kingston and the other near Holyrood, are close enough that they can share resources as necessary.
He said that until Monday Holyrood’s fire has 20 hectares of size and is still out of control.
“That jumped and burned rapidly. At Mapeo’s point he had two kilometers long,” he said.
As with the Kingston fire, Motty said the teams will return to the place early to make an attack plan.
Motty added that it is too early to say when the evacuation order could be lifted in any fire area.
‘More erratic’
The current dry conditions are also challenging the current fire fighting season, Motty said.
“The lack of precipitation is definitely not helping. Not only is it easier for fires to begin, it is making fire behavior more erratic.”
Motty said people must be attentive and understand their responsibility to prevent forest fires from starting first.
The provincial fire hazard map has the Avalon Peninsula between a very high and extreme fire risk, which puts a fire prohibition in effect in those regions.
Motty urged people to follow fire prohibitions, adding that responding to “annoying fires” eliminates resources to fight forest fires.
Meteorologist Justin Boudreau said that there are some good news for fire fighting conditions, since Tuesday’s temperatures are expected to reach a maximum of 22 degrees, with a northeast wind change in the afternoon that said they should reduce temperatures.
“What should push the fire on itself,” said Boudreau.
But he said that the disadvantage is that the smoke to the earth is expected to fly again, and added that there is a declaration of special air of the Canadian air for St. John’s and portions of the Peninsula in the north of Avalon.
Boudreau advised people impacted to reduce the time they spend outdoors.
Mark Plowman, a councilor in Small Point, Adam’s cove, Blackhead -Broad Cove, said that with two fires in the area, resources such as the four water bombers in the province could stretch.
He said he was “heartbreaking” to receive another call to evacuate the community.
“The fire was quite significant yesterday, and the conditions were perhaps significantly worse than in May for Adam’s fire,” he said.
He said that some structures have been destroyed by Kingston’s fire but did not have an exact account.
“The residents are nervous, you know, they are afraid,” said Plowman, “no naturally caused fires are caused, you know? It is clearly an act of fire caused, so the city is quite tense.”
He added that the city is working with the RCMP to finish it.
He said that constantly concerned about fires is to affect residents, private elderly people in communities.
He said that Monday’s evacuation was without problems, and the people who were registered in the Canadian Red Cross were advised in the Persalvic school complex reception center in Victoria.
Plowman said some people could find their own accommodation through friends and family.
“It is still an active forest fire, out of control, so we are going to monitor the situation with provincial emergency services and local fire chiefs,” he said.
The mayor of CBS, Darrin Bent, said people feel anxious.
“I can assure the residents at this time, there is no threat to the structures at this point. The fire is in a better place than yesterday afternoon when we saw undulating smoke,” he said.
Bent estimates that less than 20 homes have evacuated, but some homes have been left out of precautionary abundance.
The CBS Arena opened as a place of evacuation and Bent said it was there on Monday night and saw some 70 people there, mainly from Holyrood.
“We hope that the water bombers will return to the site this morning to give this a good good so that we do not have to worry so much about that.”
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