Nova Scotia is fighting out-of-control Wildfire, with one eye on hurricane in it
A water drags flies over the evacuation area where firefighters fight against the Long Lake Wildfire in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis County on Tuesday.Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press
Scott Tingley with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources says that it is rare to follow a hurricane at the same time while fighting forest fires in the province.
The lung fire in Long Lake in the Annapolis valley stays out of hand and consists of a series of fires that cover approximately 32 square kilometers of land. In the meantime, hurricane in it, which follows northwards between the Carolinas and Bermuda, is expected to be a strong wind to Nova Scotia to Nova Scotia – but no rainfall.
“I have been doing this for more than 20 years and it is the first time I have come across this,” he told reporters about the double threat of a natural fire and a hurricane. “But we are used to getting robust in this part of the country, so we had to deal with strong wind.”
Firefighters in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia have succeeded in preventing the largest fire in the province from getting two consecutive days. Dave Steves with the Department of Natural Resources told Reporters on Wednesday “There are many good things going” with fire suppressing efforts.
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Twenty -two firefighters are in the region from Ontario, five are Van Pei, 25 are voluntary firefighters from Nova Scotia, and 95 members of the Department of Natural Resources tackle the fire. “And there is an extensive amount of heavy machines that are there, and everyone works diligently to the least,” said Steeves.
Just like Tuesday, firefighters are focused on attacking the north edge of the fire closest to houses and other structures in the West -Dalhousie area, where about 100 houses were evacuated on weekends.
Tingley said: “Almost all energy is currently in and around the houses and especially where the fire crossed the West Dalhousie Road. That is the top priority, where houses and infrastructure are that can be threatened.”
Andrew Mitton, with the Ministry of Emergency Management of Nova Scotia, said there are 61 structures in the area that are equipped with sprinklers as a form of fire protection.
In the meantime, Steeves said that crews are worried about the “serious dry trend” that they see, because the existing fire eliminates moisture in the area and looking forward to the strong wind that is a prediction to accompany hurricane in it.
A report from Environment Canada said on Wednesday: “Because the very wide circulation of it follows well south of Nova Scotia, there will probably be some cloud cover at high altitude and windfalls in the afternoon and evening, especially near the Atlantic coast. No rainfall is expected.”
In Newfoundland, the 107 square kilometer-nature fire near Kingston remained out of hand from Wednesday evening. In the morning the province published an update stating that the Paddy’s Pond Fire was held in the vicinity of St. John’s’.
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