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Firefighters continue to tackle blazes in Newfoundland
Firefighters continue to tackle blazes in Newfoundland

Yahoo

time2 days ago

  • Climate
  • Yahoo

Firefighters continue to tackle blazes in Newfoundland

ST. JOHN'S — One of Newfoundland's active wildfires gained considerable ground over the weekend, and the blaze has "impacted" additional structures in the Adam's Cove, Kingston and Western Bay areas, the premier said Sunday. John Hogan said Saturday was a "difficult day" as hot and windy conditions fanned the flames of the largest of the two fires in the Avalon Peninsula. "Homes and structures were impacted... Unfortunately, we can't, based on suppression efforts and the smoke, evaluate exactly which structures have been lost at this time," the premier said during a news briefing Sunday. Late Friday, that wildfire was reported to have destroyed nine homes in the small town of Small Point-Adam's Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove. Hogan said the fire that was 30 square kilometres Saturday morning had reached 50 square kilometres by Sunday afternoon. The premier said the blaze is expected to move toward Ochre Pit Cove by Sunday evening. The premier, who spent much of the weekend in the town of Carbonear, N.L., with residents who have fled their homes, said "our hearts are with each and every one of you." There are four air tankers attacking the northern side of the fire, the premier said, which are all the water bombers Newfoundland and Labrador has in its fleet. There is also one Bird Dog aircraft, five helicopters — two of which are from the Coast Guard — and 50 groundcrew working on fighting the blaze. Hogan said the piece of good news he could deliver Sunday was that the wildfire in the Holyrood, N.L., area is now considered "held" at about 0.22 square kilometres. The evacuation order for this area has been lifted. "The fire is fully contained with hose lines... crews are still working on the fire with support from local fire departments with water supplies," Hogan said. Meanwhile, the fire near Martin Lake and Great Rattling Brook has hit about 2.55 square kilometres in size Sunday. Hogan said two waterbombers from Quebec, one Bird Dog aircraft and three air-tractors from New Brunswick are being used to support the firefighting crews. Forestry Minister Lisa Dempster said through this "devastating" time she is seeing the goodness in humanity "that always rises to the surface in the most challenging of times" among residents. However, she has also seen "some terrible, misleading, unfactual (social) media posts and comments that do nothing to help those people on the entire Bay de Verde Peninsula that are in a state of emergency — many that, through little cameras on their doors, watched their homes being burned." The minister said she's had a number of people reach out to her saying they heard they are no longer permitted to walk in the woods. She found out this rumour originated on social media. "Those people who are sharing information that they don't know whether it's true or not is not helping," she said. Dempster noted that the province has not banned hiking, walking the woods or using ATVs. "What we have banned is open-pit fires, fires that cause more fires. Fires that drain resources and quite frankly that are very careless and reckless right now in this devastating time in our province," she said. Meanwhile, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, provincial governments have implemented burn bans and restricted activity in the woods as wildfire prevention measures. Nova Scotia has imposed a sweeping ban on activities in wooded areas in addition to its existing burn bans. In New Brunswick, where the provincial government had also earlier imposed restrictions on some forestry operations, Premier Susan Holt announced a sweeping ban Saturday covering all activities on Crown lands, although she didn't announce any potential increase in fines. 'We are in an unprecedented situation and it is getting worse,' Holt told reporters in Fredericton Saturday. 'We are here to ask all New Brunswickers to get out of the woods and to stay out of the woods.' Minister of Natural Resources John Herron said of the seven active wildfires burning in the province Saturday, only one was currently out of control. The fire on Oldfield Road in the Bartibog area northeast of Miramichi, had rapidly grown to about 2.4 square kilometres in size and had closed a section of Route 8, he said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 10, 2025. — By Lyndsay Armstrong in Halifax. The Canadian Press

'I thought we were going to die': Adam's Cove woman loses childhood home in wildfire
'I thought we were going to die': Adam's Cove woman loses childhood home in wildfire

CBC

time20-05-2025

  • Climate
  • CBC

'I thought we were going to die': Adam's Cove woman loses childhood home in wildfire

Tina Dale is hoping the provincial government will provide financial help Within minutes of smelling smoke, Tina Dale saw flames scorching the trees outside her childhood home in Adam's Cove. "When we got on the doorstep, it was just like this heat and black everywhere," Dale told CBC while revisiting her property a week after a fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in Conception Bay North. The fire, which started on May 7, destroyed 12 homes and 45 structures. Water bombers worked for hours to put out the fire and save homes. Dale and her parents weren't so lucky to get through the fire without losing their home. Dale, who is living with her parents to help take care of them, was cleaning and doing yard work on the day the fire broke out. By the late afternoon, Dale says she started to smell smoke. She drove around to see what was going on and saw large flames in the distance, and says she then drove back home to get her parents out of the house as quickly as possible. While Dale was getting her parents ready to leave, she says she looked outside the window to see the yard on fire. "Dad left in his slippers… we took nothing," said Dale. Just as she got her parents in the car, "everything turned black," said Dale. "It was just like this heat and black everywhere … when I looked over there, those trees were on fire was big flames coming up behind the garage over here," said Dale while looking at the burnt debris left behind. WATCH | 'I haven't heard from anybody, nobody,' says resident whose home burned to the ground: Media Video | She thought she was going to die in the C.B.N. wildfire. Now, she has no home and wonders what's next Caption: Tina Dale thought she and her parents were going to die when fire, smoke and heat burst onto their doorstep. Theirs was one of 12 homes destroyed during the fires that burned in Adam's Cove. Now, Dale doesn't know what comes next. The CBC's Abby Cole reports. Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. When she got her car to the end of the driveway, Dale says there was so much smoke that she couldn't see. "We drove out a little ways, it was just like we were okay," said Dale. "But there for a minute ... I thought we were going to die." Restoring losses Dale says life has been a whirlwind in the last week and while she is processing what happened, she says she's also trying to gather the essential items they lost, like her parents' walkers. Dale says the costs are adding up, as her parents didn't have their home insured either. When she called telecommunications provider Eastlink, they told her she might be charged for not returning the modem. She's hoping the government will help. Dale says she called her area's MHA, Steve Crocker, and left her name and phone number, "because I'm like, am I supposed to tell somebody that we didn't have insurance and they lost everything they owned in their life?" Dale says she hasn't heard from anyone since. In a statement, government spokesperson Eric Humber says the government can't speak to individual cases. "We recognize that this has been a challenging time for all those impacted by the devastation of the wildfire in the Adam's Cove area," he wrote in an email to CBC News. "The provincial government remains in close contact with the community through various government departments as recovery efforts continue." Humber says support is available for clean up and removal of hazards and the water resources division is also sampling the public water wells, and that private water wells will be tested for contamination. As of May 16, a non-consumption order remains in place and he says the town has drinking water available for residents. "The Emergency Services Division continues to support the town and monitor the recovery process," wrote Humber. Humber's statement did not mention any financial support for those who lost their homes in the fire, but Crocker previously told CBC that some residents may be eligible for the federal Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, and that the province is in talks about providing help at a provincial level. Photogallery | Images of forest fire damage around Tina Dale's childhood home in Adam's Cove Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Dale says people have been coming with items and new clothes to help her family, and that the generosity has been overwhelming. "Bogarts even replaced my watch," she said. "People have been so kind. So there's a lot of goodness." Dale's daughter, Emily Dale, also started a GoFundMe campaign which has raised over $6,000 dollars. Dale is grateful for the help, but says it won't replace everything. "Dad is just devastated, right. And he wants to come back here," said Dale. "They only get old age pension. So I mean, he doesn't have any money to put up a new place."

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