Crews Battle Three Wildfires In Western Nova Scotia

Three uncontrollable forest fires in western Nova brought ground and air crews striving to contain it. The dry climate and the high temperature have made it difficult for the crews to bring the fire down.

Later, the crew has been brought out for safety measures. After the crews were brought out for safety, it was identified that the fire had increased. The fire has affected nearly 140 hectares and seems to be getting worse.

Lloyd Hines, the Natural Resources Minister stated "We can manage the fires we've got. If we get many more, it's going to cause great concern for us," "The primary objective here ... is to enlist the public's help in trying to reduce the risk,""The reality is, most of the fires we're aware of that start in the province start with human activity." he added.

He also mentioned the possibility of more fire in the forest area. Over the days the fire has expanded and is now along the Highway 8. For safety, the highway will be closed all night.

Though the crew will stop now, they will be back with better measures to contain the fire. The supervisor of fire management, Jim Rudderham, mentioned that the fire has not worsened since Friday night. Commercial activities, hiking, fishing etc. will be restricted soon to keep out of danger.

Department staff, volunteer firefighters and heavy equipment operators are working together to extinguish the flames. The attempt was to take out the heat from the flame front in order to make it easy for ground crew to get in and contain the fire. Fuels from the forest floor were being taken away in order to stop the flames from spreading.

Recently, fire in Maitland Bridge had burned down twenty one hectares and in Greenfield in Queens, fire had burned down nearly five hectares of forest.